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Pacific Arts Movement; 2026-07-27; PSALCA-26054CA
1 PSALCA-26054CA FISCAL YEAR 2026-27 GRANT AGREEMENT FOR PACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT This agreement is made on the ________ day of ____________, 2026, by Pacific Arts Movement hereinafter referred to as “Grantee,” and the CITY OF CARLSBAD, California, a municipal corporation, hereinafter referred to as “City” (the “Agreement”). City, as Grantor, agrees to provide Grantee the Grant funds awarded to Grantee during the Fiscal Year 2026-27 Community Arts Grants Program Arts Projects for Arts Organizations in an amount not to exceed Two thousand two hundred seventy six dollars and seventy cents ($2,276.70) (“Grant”). The purpose of the Grant is to provide funds to Grantee for the Project outlined in the Agreement Scope (“Agreement Scope”), attached hereto as Exhibit “A.” Project Title: Pac Arts Presents: Carlsbad Spotlight Screening The Grant provided herein is comprised of public funds. Therefore, to ensure that the public funds are used for a public purpose, in accordance with the law, the City and Grantee hereby agree to the following terms. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF GRANT 1. TERM. The term of this Agreement shall mean the period commencing on the execution date of this Agreement and expiring on Oct. 1, 2027. The term of this Agreement may be extended by mutual written agreement of the parties. The parties will prepare a written amendment indicating the effective date and length of extended Agreement. 2. CITY CULTURAL ARTS CONTACTS. Cultural Arts Program Manager Krystal Roa, 442-339-5611, Krystal.Roa@carlsbadca.gov Cultural Arts main line, 442-339-2090, Arts@carlsbadca.gov 3. USE OF COMMUNITY ARTS GRANTS PROCEEDS. 3.1. Grant funds are to be disbursed as outlined in this Agreement in consideration of and on condition that the sum be expended in carrying out the purpose as set forth in the Agreement Scope and under the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement. Grantee agrees to assume any obligation to furnish any additional funds that may be necessary to complete the Agreement Scope. 3.2. In accordance with the Agreement Scope and the Fiscal Year 2026-27 Community Arts Grants Guidelines (Exhibit “A”), all Grant funds are eligible to be used from Sept. 3, 2026 through Sept. 3, 2027. Any extension of fund use must be requested in writing at least 30 days prior to the end of the Agreement or sooner to allow time for written amendment and approval in writing by City. Extension of Fiscal Year 2026-27 Community Arts Grants funds may render that organization ineligible to apply for or receive additional funds as part of the subsequent Fiscal Year 2027-28 Community Arts Grants cycle. 3.3. All costs accrued for services and/or supplies prior to the execution of Agreement are not eligible for funding or reimbursement with Grant proceeds. 3.4. Eligible and ineligible costs include, but are not limited to, items detailed in the Fiscal Year 2026-27 Community Arts Grants Guidelines, in the section titled “Eligible and Ineligible Costs,” attached hereto as Exhibit “A.” 4. CONDITIONS OF FUNDING AND DISBURSEMENT. 4.1. Definitions. The Parties agree to the following definitions. 4.1.1. “Project” means the work, activities, and deliverables proposed by the Grantee in the Community Arts Grant 2026-2027 application and approved by the Arts Commission, Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 27th July 2 PSALCA-26054CA as may be further detailed in the Agreement Scope, attached hereto as Exhibit “A.” 4.2. City shall have no obligation to provide the Grant proceeds or to make any subsequent disbursement of Grant proceeds, and may seek reimbursement of Grant proceeds, if any of the following requirements are not fully satisfied: a. Grantee shall use Grant funds to implement the Agreement Scope, including using the Grant funds to cover only expenditures for programs and services incurred during the Agreement Scope dates and under the terms and conditions of this Agreement. b. Grantee shall certify that the Agreement Scope is within Carlsbad city limits or that the Grantee’s main address is within Carlsbad city limits, as specified in the Fiscal Year 2026-27 Community Arts Grants Guidelines. c. Grantee shall complete all work in accordance with Agreement Scope, as soon as possible, but in no case later than thirty (30) calendar days after the Agreement Scope end date or, Oct. 1, 2027, whichever is earlier. Grantee shall notify the City of events or proposed changes that could affect the Agreement Scope. d. The Grantee shall be responsible for the performance of the Agreement Scope as set forth herein, and for the preparation of reports required by this Agreement. e. Before Grantee makes any material changes to the Agreement Scope, Grantee will inform City’s Cultural Arts Manager or designee in writing within ten (10) working days of the decision to implement said change. City may request documentation to support the change, and Grantee agrees to submit to the City, in writing, the proposal requesting modifications to the Agreement Scope. Grantee shall make no material changes to the Agreement Scope unless and until City formally approves the Grantee’s request in writing. f. The Grantee shall provide complete and timely information to the City regarding Project activities, in accordance with the Agreement Scope, including notification of all scheduled activities at least thirty (30) days prior to each event to City’s Cultural Arts Manager or designee. g. The Grantee shall also acknowledge the City in all related publications and social media posts, in both digital and print formats, as applicable. h. Grantee shall retain all records and supporting documentation, including expenditure receipts, applicable to the Agreement Scope and this Agreement for a period of three (3) years, and make all records and supporting documentation readily available, upon request, for inspection and/or audit by representatives of the City. 5. EVENT/PROGRAM PROMOTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. Grantee has the option to supply event and/or program information including the date, location, time, admission, parking and related details for inclusion in Cultural Arts’ communications such as e-newsletter, emails and website. At its discretion, the Cultural Arts Office will provide support in distributing the information through the City’s established channels of communication. If Grantee wishes to participate, Grantee must submit the information to the Cultural Arts Office at least sixty (60) days prior to the event or program. Please initial box to opt-in to promotional opportunities 6. PUBLIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Grantee must acknowledge the Cultural Arts Office for its support of the Project in printed, electronic and/or broadcast promotions. The following acknowledgment along with a City of Carlsbad Cultural Arts logo must appear on all printed and electronic materials: “This program is funded in part by the City of Carlsbad’s Cultural Arts Office.” This logo and guidelines for acknowledgment are available on the Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 3 PSALCA-26054CA Community Arts Grants webpage or upon request. Grantees who fail to provide public acknowledgment may be denied future Community Arts Grant funding. 7. RETURN OF GRANT FUNDS. If City determines that Grantee has failed to comply with the terms and conditions of this Agreement without prior written approval by the City, then, upon demand by the City, Grantee agrees to return to the City the amount requested by the City, up to and including an amount equivalent to the full Grant award. Failure of the Grantee to comply with the terms of this Agreement shall not be the cause for return of Grant funds if, in the judgement of the City, such failure was due to no fault of the Grantee. In such case, any amount required to settle, at minimum cost, any irrevocable obligations properly incurred by Grantee shall be eligible to be paid by Grant funds. However, if, due to a local health order, Grantee is unable to complete all events or requirements of the Scope of Grant, Grantee may be required to return up to the full amount of the award or a prorated amount based on the percentage of the work completed. 8. REQUIRED REPORTS. Grantee must provide to City the following reports. Failure to provide the reports may render Grantee ineligible to receive the full and final payment of the Grant award. 8.1. Submit a Revised Project Form available upon request, as required per the Fiscal Year 2026-27 Community Arts Grants Guidelines, attached hereto as Exhibit “A,” within thirty (30) days of Grant award notification if project shifted from stated goals in the original Agreement Scope (Exhibit “A”). 8.2. Submit a Final Report including all required attachments by completing the designated form to the City (30) calendar days after the Agreement Scope end date or, Oct. 1, 2027, whichever is earlier through Foundant: Grantlife Manager. 8.3. Noncompliance: Grantees in noncompliance with the above reporting requirements agree to return some or all the initial Grant payment if requested by the City. Additionally, if Grantee is found to be in noncompliance, Grantee agrees that for the year immediately following a determination of noncompliance, Grantee shall be ineligible to receive any new grants from the City. 9. DISBURSEMENT OF GRANT FUNDS. The Grant amount to be provided to the grantee under this Agreement may be disbursed as follows: 9.1. First payment of 80 percent of Grant will be disbursed upon approval of Revised Project Form as applicable, and receipt of fully executed. 9.2. Final payment of 20 percent of Grant will be disbursed upon receipt of Final Report and approval by Library & Cultural Arts Director or designee. 9.3. Any payment of a Grant amount more than the costs required to complete the Agreement Scope shall be returned to the City within sixty (60) days of completion of the Agreement Scope or the Project end date, whichever is earliest. 10. PROJECT CANCELLATION. 10.1. If a Grantee wishes to cancel the Project outlined in the Agreement Scope (Exhibit “A”) at any time, Grantee shall notify the City in writing within fifteen (15) calendar days of the decision to cancel and Grantee, at the time it provides the City with notice of cancellation, shall return all Grant funds to the City. 10.2. In the event an approved Agreement Scope (Exhibit “A”) cannot be completed for any reason, and if Grant funds were disbursed to Grantee, Grantee agrees to return all Grant funds to the City forthwith. 11. PROJECT MODIFICATION OR TERMINATION. 11.1. Grantee may unilaterally rescind this Agreement at any time prior to the commencement of Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 4 PSALCA-26054CA the Project, or prior to first disbursement of funds. After Project commencement, as outlined in the Agreement Scope, or disbursement of Grant funds, this Agreement may be rescinded, modified, or amended only by mutual agreement, in writing, of both the City and Grantee. 11.2. Any changes, whether planned or unanticipated, to funded projects due to a local health order (including, but not limited to, state or local health orders and social distancing measures) must be submitted to City at least seven (7) calendar days before implementation of the change. Proposed modifications will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, and the City's Cultural Arts Manager or designee will notify Grantee in writing whether the proposed changes are approved. Any changes must continue to adhere to the City’s Fiscal Year 2026-27 Community Arts Grants Guidelines as defined in Exhibit “A.” 12. LOSS OF GRANT. At the discretion of the City, the following actions may result in a loss of all or in part of any Grant amount allocated to the Grantee: 12.1. A Grantee fails to enter into a signed Agreement with the City within thirty (30) calendar days of receipt of the Agreement. 12.2. Activities associated with Grantee occur that do not align with activities described in the Agreement Scope, including, but not limited to, reduction in services, significant alteration of Agreement Scope elements, such as performers, artists or attendees, or significant changes in Grantee’s budget: income, expenses, or line-item designations, included in the Agreement Scope. 12.3. A Grantee withdraws or terminates the Agreement Scope. 12.4. A Grantee fails to complete the Agreement Scope and/or fails to submit all required reports and/or documentation before Oct. 1, 2027. 13. COVENANT AGAINST DISCRIMINATION. Grantee will comply with all applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations prohibiting discrimination and harassment. Grantee agrees that neither it nor its agents shall discriminate against any clients, prospective clients, employees, prospective employees, contractors, or prospective contractors on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or familial status or other protected classification. 14. NOTICES. 14.1. Listed below are the names and addresses of the persons who are authorized to give written notices and to receive written notices on behalf of City and on behalf of Grantee under this Agreement. 14.2. Each party will notify the other immediately of any changes of address that would require any notice or delivery to be directed to another address. For Grantee: For City: Pacific Arts Movement City of Carlsbad Attn: Zia Sinclair Library & Cultural Arts Director Suzanne Smithson 7576 Dagget Street, Suite 360 1775 Dove Lane San Diego, CA 92111 Carlsbad, CA 92011 Email: grants@pacarts.org suzanne.smithson@carlsbadca.gov 15. INDEMNIFICATION. Grantee hereby agrees to defend (with counsel approved by City), indemnify, and hold free and harmless the City, its officers, officials, employees and volunteers from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, costs (including but not limited to attorney's fees) and liabilities of any kind arising directly or indirectly out of, or related in any way whatsoever to the provision of Grant proceeds. Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 5 PSALCA-26054CA 16. NO PARTNERSHIP OR JOINT VENTURE. The relationship between City and Grantee is solely that of Grantor and Grantee. Under no circumstances shall City and Grantee be deemed to have created a partnership, joint venture, agency, or any other form of legal association that would impose liability upon one party for any act or failure to act by the other party. 17. MODIFICATIONS. This Agreement may not be modified or amended except by written document duly executed by an authorized representative of both the City and the Grantee. 18. GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and be governed by the laws of the State of California regardless of conflict of laws principles. Venue, in the event of a dispute, shall be in the North San Diego County Superior Court. 19. SEVERABILITY. In the event that any provision or clause of this Agreement conflicts with applicable law, such conflict shall not affect other provisions of this Agreement, which can be given effect without the conflicting provision. To this end, the provisions of this Agreement are declared to be severable. 20. DRAFTING AMBIGUITIES. Grantee understands and is aware that it has the right to be advised by counsel with respect to the negotiations, terms and conditions of this Agreement, and that the decision to seek advice of counsel is the sole responsibility of Grantee. The Parties negotiated this Agreement with the opportunity to receive the aid of counsel and, accordingly, intend this Agreement to be construed fairly, according to its terms, in plain English, without constructive presumptions against the drafting Party. 21. SIGNING AUTHORITY. The representative for each Party signing on behalf of a corporation, partnership, joint venture or governmental entity hereby declares that authority has been obtained to sign on behalf of the corporation, partnership, joint venture, or entity and agrees to hold the other Party or Parties hereto harmless if it is later determined that such authority does not exist. /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 6 PSALCA-26054CA GRANTEE, Pacific Arts Movement, CITY OF CARLSBAD, If required by City, proper notary acknowledgment of execution by Grantee must be attached. If a Corporation, Agreement must be signed by one corporate officer from each of the following two groups. *Group A. **Group B. Chairman, Secretary, President, or Assistant Secretary, Vice-President CFO or Assistant Treasurer Otherwise, the corporation must attach a resolution certified by the secretary or assistant secretary under corporate seal empowering the officer(s) signing to bind the corporation. APPROVED AS TO FORM: For CINDIE K. McMAHON, City Attorney By: ____________________________ Tim Lyons, Assistant City Attorney Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 7 PSALCA-26054CA EXHIBIT “A” Scope of Grant Agreement The Arts Commission approved the Fiscal Year 2026-27 Community Arts Grants funding plan, which will be distributed to grantees as passed, approved, and adopted at a regular meeting on June 4, 2026, Arts Commission Resolution No. 2026-001. • Fiscal Year 2026-27 Community Arts Grants Guidelines • Approved Community Arts Grants 2026-27 Application Sample Community Arts Grant 2026-27 Final Report • Final Report shall be submitted online through Foundant: Grantlife Manager The following documents will be provided upon request: • Community Arts Grants 2026-27 – Project Budget Information • Community Arts Grants 2026-27 – Revised Project Form • Community Arts Grants 2026-27 – Revised Project Budget Information Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC FISCAL YEAR 2026-27 COMMUNITY ARTS GRANTS GUIDELINES WELCOME The City of Carlsbad Cultural Arts Office serves to encourage, develop and facilitate an enriched environment of artistic, creative and cultural activity in the City of Carlsbad and the North San Diego County region. The Cultural Arts Office manages funding programs to provide financial support to organizations, schools and individuals for various projects through a competitive application and review process. These projects benefit the community through an array of activities for schools, artists and organizations. The Community Arts Grants program was identified for continued and increasing support by the Carlsbad City Council through the 2018 Arts & Culture Master Plan. The City of Carlsbad’s Community Arts Grants program supports quality arts and cultural programming that promotes the representation and participation of diverse groups of individuals, including and not limited to people of differing abilities, class, generations, ethnicities and races, gender identities, religious or spiritual beliefs, sexual orientations, or veteran status. Our mission supports the following values: •Provide inclusive opportunities for arts & culture experiences for Carlsbad students and residents reducing/eliminating barriers for participation. •Provide arts education and lifelong learning opportunities for all ages. •Support local and regional arts organizations as an important component of the economy and quality of life in Carlsbad and North San Diego County. •Support arts education in schools and through affiliated organizations. •Develop and support organizational strength and capacity of Carlsbad arts organizations. •Encourage new and emerging artists, arts organizations and programs in Carlsbad, CA. •Celebrate Carlsbad as an exciting, vibrant and creative destination for residents and visitors alike. •Acknowledge indigenous land and cultural awareness in the Carlsbad community. FISCAL YEAR 2026-27 OVERVIEW The updated FY 2026-27 guidelines reflect national grantmaking trends and best practices and support funding for artists and arts organizations in Carlsbad and surrounding areas. Guidelines were approved by the City of Carlsbad’s Arts Commission on Feb. 5, 2026. Total funding available for the FY 2026-27 cycle is $117,128. All final reports are due within 30 days of the completion of the event or Friday, Oct. 1, 2027 whichever comes first. The first 80% of all funds awarded will be disbursed after agreements are executed and by Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026, grant start date; the final 20% once the final report and budget are submitted and approved. HEALTH AND SAFETY Grantees are asked to remain vigilant and informed of health and safety requirements, including mandated protocols as outlined by state, county, local or other governmental bodies always. Failure to do so may result in cancellation of the agreement and grant funds. Important dates for the FY 2026-27 grant cycle application are as follows: •Applications open: Friday, Feb. 13, 2026 •Applications due: Friday, Mar. 27, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. PST •Arts Commission Funding Plan review & approval: Thursday, May 7, 2026, subject to change •Funding cycle begins Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026 •All projects must be completed by Friday, Sept. 3, 2027 •Applications can be accessed online. EXHIBIT "A" 1 Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC UPDATES FOR THIS YEAR •EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND AFFILIATED GROUPS – ARTS IN SCHOOLS: Award funds within the "Educational Institutions And Affiliated Groups – Arts In Schools" category will receive a fixed amount divided between all accepted grantees, with a maximum award of $3,500 per grant. •EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS APPLICATION LIMIT: There is a cap on the number of applications for Educational Institutions (Arts in Schools) of (3) three grants per school site. For detailed requirements, please refer to the Arts in Schools Requirements section. •GRANT ELIGIBILITY: Applicants currently receiving funding from the City of Carlsbad under an active professional services agreement or grant other than a Community Arts Grant are ineligible to apply for a Community Arts Grant. ELIGIBILITY FOR ALL APPLICANTS; IMPORTANT: READ CAREFULLY All applicants, including fiscal agents and school-affiliated groups, must comply with the following: •Nonprofit Status: Applicants must be recognized as nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or the California State Franchise Tax Board. A complete Statement of Information should be on file with the California Secretary of State. This statement should be filed within the first 90 (ninety) days of incorporation and updated in accordance with state law. •Tax Identification: Applicants must provide their Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) from the IRS. Information will be checked through GuideStar’s Charity Check. •PLEASE NOTE: all organizations, including schools, must submit the names and contact information for the authorized signatories. Applications that do not identify the correct signatories for an organization or school will not be accepted. •Specific exemptions for Educational Institutions: Educational institutions are exempt from the need for tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) but are still eligible to apply. •Partnership Projects: For projects involving partnerships, only one (1) application is allowed. If a school partners with an arts organization or artist, a signed agreement between the parties is required, with the school as the lead applicant. •Must not be currently receiving funding from the City of Carlsbad under an active professional services agreement or grant other than a Community Arts Grant. APPLICATION PROCESS When applying, organizations must ensure the following: •Proof of nonprofit status: Provide evidence of nonprofit status or details of a fiscal agent. •Statement of Information: Submit a current California Statement of Information reflecting Active Status, along with a list of Authorized Signatories, their signing authority, and the type of authority (individual or joint). GUIDELINE APPENDICES •Appendix 1 – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s) •Appendix 2 – Ineligible Organizations and Activities FISCAL YEAR 2026-27 FUNDING CATEGORIES Funding is structured by the classification of each organization, then according to available categories. Applicants may only apply to one category per grant cycle: •Arts Organizations or Fiscal Agents of Organizations - $7,500 maximum award per grant •Emerging Arts Organizations - $5,000 maximum award per grant •Educational Institutions and Affiliated Groups (Arts in Schools) - $3,500 maximum award per grant. Three (3) grants maximum per school site per year. EXHIBIT "A" 2 Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC ARTS ORGANIZATIONS •Arts organizations must be registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations for at least three (3) years as of Jan. 1, 2026. •Applicants may only submit one (1) application per funding cycle and cannot apply to multiple categories. •Arts organizations grants - $7,500 maximum award per grant. •All arts projects require the participation of a professional artist or an outside subject matter expert. •Arts projects will be defined as programs, activities, and events primarily designed to be arts focused. These projects may be presented in person, or virtually if any government issued health mandates are in effect. •Arts project grants awards must be used for specific art project support and cannot be used for general operating support. EMERGING ARTS ORGANIZATIONS •Emerging arts organization must be based in Carlsbad, CA. •These grants are for smaller nonprofit organizations that are relatively new to the nonprofit community. •Emerging arts organizations - $5,000 maximum award per grant. •Must have a nonprofit 501(c)(3) status of three (3) years or less. o If 501(c)(3) status has not yet been attained, please provide proof of acting in alignment with the IRS definition of a nonprofit: possessing a nonprofit established mission, an advisory committee or a board of directors, and a history of activities directly related to the purpose of eligibility to attain nonprofit status. o Additionally, emerging arts organizations aspiring to a nonprofit status must apply through a fiscal agent. o Fiscal agents will be responsible for receiving awarded funds and dispersing them with a service fee of no more than 10% of the amount awarded to the applicant. •Projects must take place within Carlsbad, CA city limits and be accessible to the public, and benefit the community of Carlsbad. •Projects must be representative of at least one (1) of the following mediums/forms of artistic expression: o Dance o Original music composition/lyrics o Spoken word/poetry o Visual Arts that utilize sustainable or recycled materials FISCAL AGENT REQUIREMENTS o Individuals or organizations in the process of applying for nonprofit status may apply through a fiscal agent. o Any partnership between an individual, educational institution or organization must include a letter of agreement from the partnering entities. o Fiscal agents will be responsible for receiving awarded funds and dispersing them with a service fee of no more than 10% of the amount awarded to the applicant. o Organizations that act as fiscal agents are still eligible to apply for a Community Arts Grants for their organization. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND AFFILIATED GROUPS – ARTS IN SCHOOLS •Arts in Schools requests are only available to nonprofit schools or school-affiliated groups in Carlsbad, CA. •Arts in Schools are defined as programs, activities, and events that are primarily designed to be arts focused. •Arts in Schools grants - $3,500 maximum award per grant with a maximum of three (3) grants per school site per year. •Individual schools and entities representing a school (such as foundations, booster organizations etc.) can submit a maximum of three (3) grant applications from the categories below. See FAQ’s for further information on acceptable categories: o Performing arts o Visual arts o Nontraditional arts, such as culinary, digital, creative writing, etc. o STEAM projects with a focus on the arts o Arts initiatives focused on arts careers and development of arts skills. Can include arts management, non-performance skills such as design, costuming, stagecraft, career talks or coaching by subject matter experts o All three (3) submissions cannot be from a single art form within a category. (e.g. three dance projects in performingarts) •In-school grant projects utilizing teaching artists as part of the grant may not use a full-time hourly or salaried employee(s) of the respective school district to lead activities, performances, or projects; however, they may utilize teaching artists employed by other school districts. o Out-of-school programs utilizing teaching artists as part of the grant may utilize teaching artists that are employed by any school district. EXHIBIT "A" 3 Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC •All partnerships must include a signed letter of agreement from the partnering entities. APPLICANT INFORMATION FY 2026-27 Grant Cycle Schedule Feb. 13, 2026 Applications Open Feb. 18, 2026 Applicant Workshop virtual. Feb. 18 - Feb. 27, 2026 Technical assistance meetings available by appointment Mar. 27, 2026 Application Deadline: applications must be submitted electronically to City by 11:59 p.m. Mar. 30 – Apr. 17, 2026 Submitted materials are reviewed and scored by a peer panel consisting of local and regional artists, arts professionals, and educators May 7, 2026 Funding plan presented to Arts Commission for review and approval June 4 – July 3, 2026 Begin email notifications to Grantees of award and City create and route DocuSign agreements for electronic signatures. Sept. 3, 2026 Project/activity period opens. Sept. 3, 2027 Project/activity period closes. Oct. 1, 2027 All FY 2026-27 Final Reports are due. Grantees complete a Final Report within thirty (30) days of the program end date or by Oct. 1, 2027, whichever comes first. APPLICANT WORKSHOPS AND ONE-ON-ONE APPOINTMENTS Application information and links, including online tutorials, will be available on the Community Arts Grants application portal. The following resources will be available for applicants in the fiscal year 2026-27 cycle: •The Applicant Workshop will include a general overview of the grant process, application and procedures. New applicants are required to attend. •Technical Assistance Meetings – Applicants may schedule a 30-minute appointment with grant program staff to answer questions about the process, application or other topics. These appointments will be dependent on staff capacity and availability. Applicants are required to attend the Applicant Workshop prior to the appointment. To schedule a one-on-one appointment, please contact Program Manager Krystal Roa: o Email: krystal.roa@carlsbadca.gov o (442) 339-5611 (office) | (442) 245-0502 (mobile) •Please note that staff will review applications for effective and impactful delivery of information and ensure completeness and clarity of the information supplied. Staff will not provide feedback on content, programming, or other project details. PANEL REVIEW AND SCORING OF APPLICATIONS Submitted applications are reviewed and scored by a virtual peer panel of local and regional artists, arts professionals, and educators. The panelists’ scoring will inform a funding plan for review and final approval by the Carlsbad Arts Commission. SCORING RUBRIC FOR ALL CATEGORIES (EXCEPT EMERGING ARTISTS) Application scores will be based on the following criteria aligned with the Community Arts Grants mission. Panelists will be asked to undertake the following scoring recommendations and directives: •Panelists will score applications on how closely the project(s) achieve the goals of the respective grant category. •Panelists may be asked to convene to discuss the application’s merits. •Award amounts are determined via a formula that takes into consideration the total amount of available funds, the average scores of the applicants, and an assigned percentage based on those scores. The scoring of applications will be based on the following criteria, with a maximum score of 50 points. The examples provided are for informational purposes only and are not meant to be exhaustive: •Quality of Program(s) (10 points) o Reinforce accessible artistic and cultural opportunities and experiences for Carlsbad residents. o Provide arts education and lifelong learning opportunities for all ages. •Community Impact (30 points) o Celebrate and promote Carlsbad as an exciting, vibrant, and creative destination for our community, students, as well as visitors and tourists throughout the world. o Support local and regional arts and cultural organizations as an important component of the economy and quality of life in Carlsbad and North San Diego County. o Accessibility of program for participants and audience members, including economic limitations under the Americans EXHIBIT "A" 4 Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC with Disabilities Act. •Encouragement of programs that promote the representation and participation of diverse groups of individuals, including and not limited to people of differing abilities, class, generations, ethnicities and races, gender identities, religious or spiritual beliefs, sexual orientations and veteran status. •Organizational Capacity (10 points) o Provide evidence of organizational strength and capacity to support the scope of the project/activity. OTHER REVIEW AND SCORING INFORMATION •Cultural Arts Office staff will review applications after the deadline. •Applications deemed eligible will be forwarded to scoring panelists and reviewed within the context of the project or program as outlined in the application. •Incomplete applications, or applications with incorrect information, will be deemed ineligible. AGREEMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR GRANTEES Upon approval of your application: •Legal Agreement with the City of Carlsbad: To proceed with your project, you must first enter into a legal agreement with the City of Carlsbad. City will route the agreement using DocuSign to obtain secure electronic signatures, and the commencement of your project is contingent upon the execution of this agreement. •Non-Profit Corporation Signing Authorities: All agreements MUST be signed by two officers listed on the Statement of Information filed with the California Secretary of State for your organization (or as listed on the most recent board roster). These officers should be those who are authorized to enter into legally binding agreements on behalf of your organization, such as CEO, CFO, Treasurer, Secretary. One corporate officer from each of the following groups must sign the agreement: Group A Group B or or Otherwise, the corporation must attach a resolution certified by the secretary or assistant secretary under corporate seal empowering the officer(s) signing to bind the corporation. You can verify your status with the California Secretary of State and see the officers listed on the Statement of Information at this website: Search | California Secretary of State. Further documentation of signature authorization will be requested if the most recent Statement of Information has not been filed. Specific Entity Requirements: o Fiscal Agents: The agreement must be signed by two officers from the fiscal agent’s organization, as per organization’s Statement of Information. o Educational Institutions: A Signature Delegation Form must be completed by the school principal and a district representative (e.g., Assistant Superintendent). o School-Affiliated Groups (i.e., school booster groups): Follow the same signature requirements as nonprofit organizations. IMPORTANT NOTE: Applicants who have been granted funding in previous cycles must meet all requirements from those past agreements before they are eligible to receive a new agreement for the FY 2026-27 cycle. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Grant recipients are required to maintain three (3) years of accounts, records and evidence pertaining to costs incurred and revenues acquired under the respective grant program. Grantees should be able to provide upon request: •Accurate, current and complete disclosure of revenue and expenses for the project. •Records that adequately identify the sources and application of funds for grant sponsored activities. •Accounting records supported by source documentation – invoices, receipts, bank statements, etc. EXHIBIT "A" 5 Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC •All awardees must provide documents within thirty (30) days of receipt of request. This includes but is not limited to agreements, revised project forms, final reports, and financial accounting. EXHIBIT "A" 6 Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC PUBLIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENT •Grant recipients must acknowledge the Cultural Arts Office for its support of the project in printed, electronic and/or broadcast promotions. •The following acknowledgment along with a City of Carlsbad Cultural Arts logo must appear on all printed and electronic materials: “This program is funded in part by the City of Carlsbad’s Cultural Arts Office.” This logo and guidelines for acknowledgment are available on the Community Arts Grants webpage or upon request. •Grantees who fail to provide public acknowledgment may be denied future project funding. PROMOTION BY CITY •Grantees are required to keep the Cultural Arts Office informed of all program dates and times. •If the grantee wishes to participate in promotion through approved city channels, they may opt-in as part of the agreement. All participation in promotion through the city’s social media channels and other outlets, is subject to staff review, editing and approval prior to promotion. •Grantees are encouraged and expected to: o Give notifications and invitations to the Cultural Arts Office staff that will be extended to the Carlsbad Arts Commission at least two (2) weeks in advance of program. o Extensively promote funded events and projects with appropriate verbiage as indicated in “Public Acknowledgement” stipulated above. FINAL REPORTS, SITE VISITS AND PROGRAM ATTENDANCE The Cultural Arts staff may monitor grant projects during the grant cycle, including potential site visits. The reports of these visits will be included in grant application files and may provide a basis for evaluation of future requests. Grantees will have an option to replace digitally submitted final reports with in-person site visits and/or interviews. Pending any health and safety mandates and protocols as outlined by state, county, local or other governmental bodies, these site visits/ interviews may be conducted by Cultural Arts staff and/or Arts Commissioner(s), as available, and appropriate to each grant. Grantees may still opt to submit on-line final reports in consultation with staff. In all cases, grantees will still be required to submit final budget forms digitally for staff review and approval. All final reports are due within thirty (30) days of the completion of the event or Friday, Oct. 1, 2027, whichever comes first, to receive the final award payment. Excessively late submission of a final report may result in action taken per contract. ASSISTANCE Cultural Arts Office staff are always available to assist applicants. Please contact Cultural Arts office at 442-339-2090 or email arts@carlsbadca.gov. POLICIES •Once submitted, applications may be moved into a different category at the discretion of Cultural Arts staff. Notification will be made to the applicant. •The City of Carlsbad reserves the right to limit funding amounts to any applicant, regardless of eligibility or panel score, based on fiscal year limitations. •Cultural Arts Office staff actively review and evaluate all aspects of the funding program and process. Updates may occur throughout the funding calendar. Cultural Arts staff will provide information on program updates, to all grantees when they are implemented. •Any significant changes or amendments by the grantee to approved projects must be submitted in writing to the Cultural Arts Office by the grantee before any grant funds are used, and before the execution of any altered activity. This includes, but is not limited to, changes in purpose, scope, services, target audiences, intended timeline, personnel, location, date, activities, or budget. This requirement will be included in the agreement. •The Cultural Arts Office reserves the right to review, cancel or reallocate project funds significantly altered or shifted from stated goals in the original approved application and/or revised project form. Canceled funds must be returned to the Cultural Arts Office within thirty (30) days of written notification. •No two (2) entities (organization or school/affiliated groups) may apply for funding for the same project. •Applicants may only apply to one (1) category per funding cycle. EXHIBIT "A" 7 Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC OTHER INFORMATION Carlsbad Arts Commission Meetings: Carlsbad Arts Commission meetings are public, and information is available on the city website. A meeting is scheduled for Thursday, May 7, 2026, to approve the FY 2026-27 Community Arts Grants Funding Plan. For more information about the duties of the Carlsbad Arts Commission and its meetings, visit the Arts Commission webpage. HOW TO APPLY Application All applications must be submitted online. The application is comprised of approximately five (5) main sections, some of which include long answer sections and attachments. The application is available at the Community Arts Grants webpage. •Organization Information: An updated Statement of Information and approved signatories must be submitted for applications to be accepted. •Project Information and Narrative •Project Support Information •Budget: A budget form and sample can be found at the Community Arts Grants webpage. •Signatory Information as described in the section titled “Agreement Requirements for Grantees.” APPENDIX 1: COMMUNITY ARTS GRANTS FAQ’S Are there any organizations that are ineligible to receive Community Arts Grant funding? Yes. For-profit organizations are ineligible to receive funding through the Community Arts Grants program. This includes for-profit schools and businesses. Can I apply to more than one category? No. Unlike previous grant cycles, artists and organizations may only apply to one (1) category per fiscal year grant cycle. What projects are eligible for the Emerging Arts Organization category? Projects must be representative of at least one (1) of the following mediums/forms of artistic expression: o Dance o Original music composition/lyrics o Spoken word/poetry o Visual Arts using sustainable or recycled materials o Ethnic or indigenous art forms o Digital art forms such as film, animation, etc. What arts organizations qualify to apply in the Emerging Arts Organization category? •Arts Organization must be based in Carlsbad, CA. •Must have a nonprofit 501(c)(3) status of three (3) years or less: •If 501(c)(3) status has not yet been attained, please provide proof of acting in alignment with the IRS definition of a nonprofit; possessing a nonprofit established mission, an advisory committee or a board of directors, and a history of activities directly related to the purpose of eligibility to attain a nonprofit status. •Additionally, emerging arts organizations aspiring to a nonprofit status must apply through a fiscal agent. Is attendance required for the workshops and information sessions? Applicant workshop attendance or technical assistance meeting is required for all new applicants, applicants who were denied the last cycle, and those applying in the Emerging Arts Organization category. Workshop attendance or technical assistance meetings by returning awardees are highly recommended as an opportunity for staff to guide and assist applicants in the FY 2026-27 Community Arts Grants application process. How are final awards decided? All award amount decisions consider the total amount of funding available, scores from panelists, and the request from the applying entity. After panelists score, Cultural Arts staff will create a funding plan based on these factors, which is forwarded to the Arts Commission for final approval. EXHIBIT "A" 8 Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Can one school site apply for multiple educational institutions (or Arts in Schools) grants? Yes. Individual schools and entities representing a school (such as foundations, booster organizations etc.) can submit a maximum of three (3) grant applications per educational institution amongst the list below; all three (3) submissions cannot be from a single medium. Examples of acceptable mediums: •Performing arts •Visual arts •Nontraditional arts, such as culinary, digital, creative writing, etc. •STEAM projects with a focus on the arts •Arts initiatives focused on arts careers and development of arts skills. Can include arts management, non-performance skills such as design, costuming, stagecraft, career talks or coaching by subject matter experts •All three (3) submissions cannot be from a single art form within a category. (e.g. three dance projects in performing arts) APPENDIX 2: INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVITIES The City of Carlsbad will NOT award Community Arts Grants to: •For-profit organizations, schools, and businesses. •Organizations and/or affiliates that are directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office. •Governmental agencies or public authorities. •Applicants that have a “delinquent” status with the Community Arts Grants funding programs. •Retroactive funding for completed activities. •Religious and/or sectarian programming or any programming and/or services solely for the promotion of or consumption by a specific religious order and/or sect. •Cash reserves or endowments of any kind. Awards are to be expended within the designated funding period. •Capital expenditures, including construction, renovation, or purchase of real property. •Applications that do not support nonprofit, public art activities or projects that benefit a for-profit business or activity. •Projects through a fiscal sponsor that benefit the sponsoring organization or are an extension of the sponsoring organization’s programs or services. •Support groups and/or nonprofit organizations supporting city departments or facilities. •General operating costs, including costs associated with the start-up of a new organization. •Applications to reduce existing deficits. •Applicants currently receiving funding from the City of Carlsbad under an active professional services agreement or grant other than a Community Arts Grant. Funding may NOT be used for: •Fundraising expenses. •Consultants who are members of an applicant’s staff or board. •Political campaigns or lobbying activities. •Payments to students. •Endowments or endowment campaigns. •Scholarships, fellowships or tuition assistance. •Costs incurred before the start of the funded project or outside the funding period. •Project or activities outside the City of Carlsbad limits. •Entry fees for competitions or sponsorship fees. •Pageants, fund-raising events, or hospitality costs. •Private foundations or other re-granting organizations. •Religious or doctrinal purposes, although faith-based organizations may apply for program support. •Publication of manuscripts or compositions not created as part of a grant-supported project. •Purchase of monetary awards, cash prizes, contributions, or donations. •Professional development for staff and board members. •Scholarly or academic research, tuition and activities which generate academic credit or formal study toward an academic or professional degree. •Creation of textbooks. •Ongoing, recurring administrative expenses. EXHIBIT "A" 9 Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Zia Sinclair Pacific Arts Movement Printed On: 15 June 2026 Fiscal Year 2026-27: Arts Projects for Arts Organizations 1 Pac Arts Presents: Carlsbad Spotlight Screening Fiscal Year 2026-27: Arts Projects for Arts Organizations Pacific Arts Movement Alex Villafuerte 7576 Dagget Street, Suite 360 San Diego, CA 92111 info@pacarts.org O: 619-400-5911 Zia Sinclair 7675 Dagget Street, Suite 360 San Diego, CA 92111 grants@pacarts.org O: 619-452-4696 Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Zia Sinclair Pacific Arts Movement Printed On: 15 June 2026 Fiscal Year 2026-27: Arts Projects for Arts Organizations 2 Application Form Application Verification Application Type Verification:* This application is for Arts Organizations applying for the Arts Project category. If you are looking for other funding opportunities, please click on the "Apply" button in the blue bar on the top of this screen. Applicants may only submit one application per category per funding cycle. I verify that this is the application for the Arts Projects for Arts Organizations category. Guidelines & Eligibility Requirements Review Confirmation:* Please be sure to review the Community Arts Grants Guidelines and eligibility requirements prior to submitting a grant application. A summary of the eligibility requirements is also provided on the application homepage. I have reviewed the Community Arts Grants Guidelines and the eligibility requirements. Fiscal Sponsor Role As an Arts Organization, would you be interested in acting as a Fiscal Sponsor for individual artists to apply for future Community Arts Grants? This would not impact your own organization's ability to apply for funding. If you check yes, Cultural Arts Office staff will reach out with more information. We appreciate your support of individual artists! (OPTIONAL) All applicants that wish to collaborate with others to complete this grant application may use the "collaborator" button on the top right section of this page (instructions below.): Collaborator feature Video Tutorial (2 minutes long) *If applicable, please note that some data from the applying organization's GuideStar profile may be pre- populated (copied) into the corresponding GuideStar questions on this application form. You may do so by clicking on the "Copy GuideStar" profile button on the top right section of this page (next to the "Collaborator" button) and selecting what you would like to pre-populate. Note that you will have the ability to edit your pre-populated information. Organization Information •Arts Organizations must be registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations established for at least 3 years as of January 1, 2026 •Applicants may only submit one application per funding cycle and cannot apply to multiple categories Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Zia Sinclair Pacific Arts Movement Printed On: 15 June 2026 Fiscal Year 2026-27: Arts Projects for Arts Organizations 3 Past Funding* Has your organization received funding from the City of Carlsbad's Community Arts Grants program in the past? No Are you an individual artist applying through a fiscal agent?* No Primary Organization Name Name as shown on an IRS letter of determination. Pacific Arts Movement DBA (if applicable) Organization Website http://www.pacarts.org Organization Mission Statement: Please provide your organization's mission statement. If you have a GuideStar profile, you may copy and paste your organization's GuideStar mission statement or provide another version here. If you are an individual artist, use this section to give us an idea of your mission/vision as an artist. Pacific Arts Movement presents Pan Asian media arts to San Diego residents and visitors in order to inspire, entertain, and support a more compassionate society. We fulfill our mission by presenting unique, culturally- enriching programs that would otherwise be inaccessible to the public, engaging the public in meaningful discourse that promotes positive social change through our programs, promoting artistic excellence, innovation and the independent voice, and strengthening San Diego as an arts destination. Organization (or Fiscal Agent) Signatory Information Board Roster:* Please upload your organization's roster of board members and ensure the document includes names, titles, organization/business affiliation and areas of expertise. Alternatively, we will also accept the most recent board meeting minutes that includes the board roster. 2026 Pacific Arts Movement Board of Directors.pdf Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Zia Sinclair Pacific Arts Movement Printed On: 15 June 2026 Fiscal Year 2026-27: Arts Projects for Arts Organizations 4 IRS Letter of Determination* An IRS letter of determination confirms an organization's tax-exempt status, particularly under section 501(c)(3), and is essential for nonprofits to operate and receive donations. Please upload the IRS Letter of Determination that is associated with the organization with the 501(c)3 status. 501c3 letter_PacArts.pdf Statement of Information* Attach your current Statement of Information filed with the California Secretary of State for your organization. You can verify your status with the California Secretary of State and see the officers listed on the Statement of Information at this website: Search | California Secretary of State If you do not have this, the organization must attach a resolution certified by the secretary or assistant secretary under corporate seal empowering the officer(s) signing to bind the corporation. SoS_StatementofInformation_2026.pdf Comment: Hello Zia, the Statement of information is located on the page which you screenshotted. You will need to click on the "View History" and download the file of the most recent statement. The information of signatories will be listed there - these people will be the ones required to sign the contract. Please list the names and organizational titles of the two (2) officers listed on the Statement of Information filed with the California Secretary of State for your organization (or listed on the most recent board roster.) These are officers who are authorized to enter into legally binding agreements on behalf of your organization (i.e. CEO, CFO, Treasurer, Secretary.) One corporate officer from each of the following groups must sign the agreement: Group A Group B Chairman, Secretary, President, or Assistant Secretary, Vice-President CFO or Assistant Treasurer GROUP A SIGNATOR: First & Last Name (i.e. Mary Wilson):* Alex Villafuerte GROUP A SIGNATOR: Organizational Title (i.e. CEO):* Executive Director GROUP A SIGNATOR: Email address:* alex@pacarts.org Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Zia Sinclair Pacific Arts Movement Printed On: 15 June 2026 Fiscal Year 2026-27: Arts Projects for Arts Organizations 5 GROUP B SIGNATOR: First and Last Name (i.e. Luke Wilson):* Huy Ly GROUP B SIGNATOR: Organizational Title (i.e. Secretary):* Secretary GROUP B SIGNATOR: Email Address:* huy@pacarts.org Project Information and Narrative •Projects must take place in Carlsbad, be accessible to the public and benefit the community of Carlsbad •All arts projects/activities require the participation of an artist or subject matter expert •Arts Project grants have a maximum award of $7,500 ( Note: those applying in Emerging Arts Organization category have a maximum award of $5,000) Project Name:* Please provide us with the name of the arts project. Pac Arts Presents: Carlsbad Spotlight Screening Project Summary:* Please provide us with a brief summary of your project, no more than 1-2 sentences. This section will be shared with the public. Pacific Arts Movement will present the Carlsbad Spotlight Screening, a free public film event featuring curated works by Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) filmmakers, with a live introduction. The event brings nationally recognized cultural film programming to Carlsbad for the first time, offering residents an accessible and professionally presented arts experience rooted in diverse storytelling. Project Start Date:* Please note that project start date must be on or after September 3, 2026. 02/01/2027 Project End Date:* Please note that the project end date must be on or before September 3, 2027. Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Zia Sinclair Pacific Arts Movement Printed On: 15 June 2026 Fiscal Year 2026-27: Arts Projects for Arts Organizations 6 03/31/2027 Project Details:* This section will be used for evaluation. Please provide as much detail regarding your project. Including the following details, but not limited to: •Event date(s), time and location(s) •Partnership / Artists •Anticipated Skills Learned Amount Requested:* This is the amount your organization is requesting from the City of Carlsbad's Cultural Arts Grants. Please note that the maximum funding amount request is $7,500 for one-year arts projects. Participants:* Total number of expected participants for this project (i.e. artists, coordinators, directors.) Audience:* Total number of expected audience attendance for this project. Previous Project Success: If your organization has completed a similar project, please provide details of the project and why it was successful. Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Zia Sinclair Pacific Arts Movement Printed On: 15 June 2026 Fiscal Year 2026-27: Arts Projects for Arts Organizations 7 with local venues and organizations, bringing AANHPI cinema directly into neighborhoods beyond the annual San Diego Asian Film Festival footprint. Project Distinction: What makes this project distinctive? Project Goals: What are the goals (outputs and/or outcomes) of the project? How will you measure your goals? Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Zia Sinclair Pacific Arts Movement Printed On: 15 June 2026 Fiscal Year 2026-27: Arts Projects for Arts Organizations 8 photography. A final report will be submitted to the Cultural Arts Office within 30 days of the event, including attendance data, survey results, and financial accounting. Target Population: Who is your target population and why? How will you reach them? Project Partnerships: If applicable, please provide names and brief descriptions of roles for any partners in this project. This would include any organizations, artists or individuals involved in your project that are not employed or affiliated with the applying organization. Partner Resumes: If applicable, you may upload any resumes of teaching artists, artists or any other partners in the proposed project here. Please consolidate into one PDF if possible. Contact the Cultural Arts department at arts@carlsbadca.gov should you need assistance. Organization Changes/Challenges/Circumstances: What special circumstances, challenges or changes have affected your organization? What impact has this had on your organization? Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Zia Sinclair Pacific Arts Movement Printed On: 15 June 2026 Fiscal Year 2026-27: Arts Projects for Arts Organizations 9 has prioritized the geographic expansion of its Spotlight Screening series, with North County communities, including Carlsbad, identified as underserved by the organization's current programming reach. Project Support Information You may upload support information in this section. Contact the Cultural Arts department at arts@carlsbadca.gov should you need assistance. Materials Upload (OPTIONAL, but recommended): Please upload any marketing materials, images and/or files that would provide more information about your project. Videos Upload (OPTIONAL): Please provide us with a host website link for all videos relevant to the project. Videos Upload (OPTIONAL) If you do not have a URL that hosts your videos, you may upload it here. Additional Materials: You may upload any other additional supplemental materials you wish to provide here (i.e. letters of support from partnering organization(s) that is essential to your project.) Budget Information You may upload budget support information in this section. Please consolidate into one PDF if possible. Contact the Cultural Arts office at arts@carlsbadca.gov should you need assistance. Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Zia Sinclair Pacific Arts Movement Printed On: 15 June 2026 Fiscal Year 2026-27: Arts Projects for Arts Organizations 10 Total Project Budget $7,500.00 Project Budget Form:* Download a Community Arts Grants budget form and complete the "Projected" column. Save your completed file as a PDF and upload your project budget form here. Make sure costs tie in with your project narrative. * PLEASE USE COMMUNITY ARTS GRANT BUDGET FORM ONLY. Budget forms are available on the Cultural Arts Community Arts Grants webpage. Please contact the Cultural Arts office at arts@carlsbadca.gov should you need assistance. CAG_Budget_PacArts_FY2627.pdf Organizational Budget:* Please upload a current organizational budget. 2025 Budget—Pacific Arts Movement.pdf Audited Financials:* Please upload your organization's most recent completed short form 990s. Pacific_Arts_Movement_2024_990_13pgs.pdf Application Submission Application Submission: Note: Once you submit your application, you cannot edit the form. Please review your answers before submitting After you submit this application, you will receive an email for the submission confirmation. Application Certification:* I certify that the information contained in this application, including all attachments and support materials, is true and correct to the best of my knowledge. Yes Date of Application Submission:* 03/26/2026 Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Zia Sinclair Pacific Arts Movement Printed On: 15 June 2026 Fiscal Year 2026-27: Arts Projects for Arts Organizations 11 Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Zia Sinclair Pacific Arts Movement Printed On: 15 June 2026 Fiscal Year 2026-27: Arts Projects for Arts Organizations 12 File Attachment Summary Applicant File Uploads • 2026 Pacific Arts Movement Board of Directors.pdf • 501c3 letter_PacArts.pdf • SoS_StatementofInformation_2026.pdf • 2025-SDAFF-ProgramBooklet-compressed.pdf • Pac-Arts_supplemental-documents_2026.pdf • CAG_Budget_PacArts_FY2627.pdf • 2025 Budget—Pacific Arts Movement.pdf • Pacific_Arts_Movement_2024_990_13pgs.pdf Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 2026 Pacific Arts Movement Board of Directors Information TOTAL 10 QUORUM 6 First Name Last Name Board Position Headshot Company Position Tiffany Ayres Board Member Director of Development, Student Support and Success UC San Diego Walton Chan Board Member Mojo Licensing LLC CEO Christian Garcia Secretary U.S. Bank Branch Manager, AVP Quinton Grounds Board Member County of San Diego Senior Community Representative Office of County Supervisor Terra Lawsom-Remer Christine Lee Board Member San Marcos Unified School District Public Information Officer MyMy Lu Vice-Chair Petco Director, DEI Huy Ly Board Member Meijun President & CEO Jason Pang Board Member InspirASIAN Chapter President Shirley Sanz Board Member InspirASIAN Director Emeritus Samantha Trinh Treasurer Deloitte & Touche LLP Managing Director Alex Yamashiro Chair PNC Bank Senior Vice President/Corporate and Institutional Banking Tamami Yoshida Board Member Ryan Carvalho & Retz LLP Associate Attorney Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 1 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 02 04 09 18 26 30 34 37 48 49 50 50 51 52 59 Film Schedule Special Presentations Asian American Panorama Asia Pop! Masters Unknown Pleasures Classics Restored Shorts Programs Festival Jurors George C. Lin Filmmaker Award Membership Roster Thank You Team Sponsors Index / Print Source TABLE OF CONTENTS COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY PACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 2 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 FILM SCHEDULE 7:30 PM OPENING NIGHT FORGE | 114 min (PAGE 5) Thu, Nov 6 11:00 AM 12:20 PM 12:30 PM 12:40 PM 1:00 PM 2:30 PM 2:40 PM 3:05 PM 3:15 PM 4:50 PM 5:10 PM 5:35 PM 5:50 PM 7:20 PM 7:45 PM 8:00 PM 8:15 PM SHORTS FOR SHORTIES! | 44 min (PAGE 46) HOW DARE YOU? | 96 min (PAGE 21) SOUTHEAST ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNEYS | 70 min (PAGE 16) SHORTS: THE GIRLS ARE WINNING | 88 min (PAGE 39) HONEYJOON | 75 min (PAGE 14) CLASH | 124 min (PAGE 19) MY UNCLE JENS | 98 min (PAGE 23) RENOIR | 118 min (PAGE 33) THE GAS STATION ATTENDANT | 88 min (PAGE 13) THE ARCH | 95 min (PAGE 35) SHORTS: QUEER SPACE — AND BEYOND | 104 min (PAGE 43) REMOVAL OF THE EYE | 93 min (PAGE 15) SUMMER'S CAMERA | 86 min (PAGE 24) BUNNYLOVR | 93 min (PAGE 11) WOMAN AND CHILD | 131 min (PAGE 29) NO OTHER CHOICE | 139 min (PAGE 28) A USEFUL GHOST | 130 min (PAGE 24) Sat, Nov 8 4:00 PM FREE FILMS AT 4 SHORTS: LONELY HEARTS CLUB | 99 min (PAGE 40) Fri, Nov 7 5:45 PM 6:00 PM 7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM MY UNCLE JENS | 98 min (PAGE 23) HIJO MAYOR | 118 min (PAGE 32) YEAR OF THE CAT | 108 min (PAGE 17) MAG MAG | 113 min (PAGE 22) THE SYSTEM | 88 min (PAGE 36) 4:00 PM 5:35 PM 6:10 PM 7:00 PM 7:50 PM 8:15 PM FREE FILMS AT 4 SHORTS: PARALLEL PLAY | 98 min (PAGE 42) Mon, Nov 10 MANOK | 108 min (PAGE 22) HOW DARE YOU? | 96 min (PAGE 21) MAGELLAN | 160 min (PAGE 27) BEFORE THE MOON FALLS | 101 min (PAGE 10) PROJECT Y | 110 min (PAGE 23) 5:45 PM TAIWAN SHOWCASE FAMILY MATTERS | 99 min (PAGE 20) TAIWAN SHOWCASE HAUNTED MOUNTAINS: THE YELLOW TABOO | 85 min (PAGE 20) 7:55 PM 7:30 PM 9:00 PM 12:55 PM 1:10 PM 1:30 PM 2:00 PM THE ROSE: COME BACK TO ME | 85 min (PAGE 16) RENOIR | 118 min (PAGE 33) LUCKY LU | 103 min (PAGE 14) SHORTS: ĐẸP NHƯ MA / PRETTY AS A GHOST | 83 min (PAGE 38) RESURRECTION | 156 min (PAGE 28) SHORTS: SHADOW BOX | 97 min (PAGE 45) FUCKTOYS | 113 min (PAGE 13) MANOK | 108 min (PAGE 22) CENTERPIECE ROSEMEAD | 97 min (PAGE 6) WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU? | 108 min (PAGE 29) MYSTERY KUNG FU THEATER Sun, Nov 9 3:30 PM 3:50 PM 4:15 PM 4:30 PM 6:45 PM 12:30 PM TAIWAN SHOWCASE ACCIDENTAL TRIO | 103 min (PAGE 34) TAIWAN SHOWCASE DECATHLON: THE CK YANG & RAFER JOHNSON STORY | 63 min (PAGE 12) TAIWAN SHOWCASE BLIND LOVE | 148 min (PAGE 19) 2:40 PM 4:20 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 3 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 326TH ANNUAL SAN DIEGO ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 7:55 PM 4:00 PM 5:35 PM 6:45 PM 7:00 PM 2:30 PM 3:25 PM MAGELLAN | 160 min (PAGE 27) HUMAN RESOURCE | 122 min (PAGE 27) FREE FILMS AT 4 BECAUSE OF YOU: A HISTORY OF KILAWIN KOLEKTIBO | 82 min (PAGE 10) SHORTS: TO A TIME WITHOUT A PLACE | 107 min (PAGE 46) ANDAZ APNA APNA | 160 min (PAGE 35) MEMBER SCREENING OPM + HOME MOVIES: THE LEGACY OF UNCLE NICK | 90 min (PAGE 7) DEBUT, OR, OBJECTS OF THE FIELD OF DEBRIS AS CURRENTLY CATALOGUED | 78 min (PAGE 12) Tue, Nov 11 6:00 PM TAIWAN SHOWCASE THE WAVES WILL CARRY US | 99 min (PAGE 25) TAIWAN SHOWCASE BACK HOME | 65 min (PAGE 26) 8:10 PM FREE FILMS AT 4 SHORTS: WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH THIS | 85 min (PAGE 47) SHORTS: BODIES, BODIES, BODIES | 73 min (PAGE 38) CHARACTERS DISAPPEARING | 85 min (PAGE 11) RESURRECTION | 156 min (PAGE 28) 3670 | 124 min (PAGE 30) Wed, Nov 12 4:00 PM 5:30 PM 6:30 PM 6:50 PM 8:15 PM FREE FILMS AT 4 SHORTS: JUST BETWEEN US | 93 min (PAGE 40) WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU? | 108 min (PAGE 29) BRAND NEW LANDSCAPE | 115 min (PAGE 31) THE ROSE: COME BACK TO ME | 85 min (PAGE 16) MOUSE | 106 min (PAGE 15) PROJECT Y | 110 min (PAGE 23) YOUR TOUCH MAKES OTHERS INVISIBLE | 71 min (PAGE 33) Thu, Nov 13 4:00 PM 5:40 PM 6:25 PM 6:35 PM 8:00 PM 8:35 PM 8:50 PM 5:30 PM 6:30 PM REEL VOICES | 120 min (PAGE 44) 4:00 PM FREE FILMS AT 4 SHORTS: OUR LAND HAS A THROBBING HEART | 92 min (PAGE 41) TAIWAN SHOWCASE DECATHLON: THE CK YANG & RAFER JOHNSON STORY | 63 min (PAGE 12) TBA THIRD ACT | 91 min (PAGE 17) TBA HUMAN RESOURCE | 122 min (PAGE 27) TAIWAN SHOWCASE HAUNTED MOUNTAINS: THE YELLOW TABOO | 85 min (PAGE 20) Fri, Nov 14 6:20 PM 6:45 PM 7:10 PM 8:30 PM 9:15 PM 1:00 PM 1:10 PM 1:20 PM 1:30 PM 3:50 PM 4:10 PM 4:20 PM 4:30 PM 7:00 PM REEL VOICES | 120 min (PAGE 44) KY NAM INN | 130 min (PAGE 21) LIVING THE LAND | 132 min (PAGE 32) WOMAN AND CHILD | 131 min (PAGE 29) 25 CATS FROM QATAR | 99 min (PAGE 9) TAKE OUT | 88 min (PAGE 36) TBA AMOEBA | 99 min (PAGE 31) CLOSING NIGHT TAIWAN SHOWCASE LEFT-HANDED GIRL | 109 min (PAGE 8) Sat, Nov 15 Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 4 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 4 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 Introducing our Big Night Films, including Asian American stars like we’ve never seen before, a Taiwanese collabo with Sean Baker, and a special 16mm presentation of home movies with a live vinyl music set. Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 5 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 5SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS In the heat of the Miami art market, siblings Raymond and Coco run the best forgery racket in town around Coco’s uncanny ability to reproduce a painting down to its age-specific varnish. But when they ascend into the big time, Coco's skills can't guarantee buyers any more than Raymond's faked certificates of ownership. That is, until they meet Holden Beaumont, a shifty millennial desperate to use his blue blood provenance to sell fake masterpieces for a cash bailout. As the team lures in a hush-hush art dealer, FBI Art Crimes agent Emily Lee follows a hunch that a new counterfeiting talent is cooking in Miami. As Emily starts to show up at Raymond and Coco’s Chinese family restaurant, this big job might very well be their last. In debut filmmaker Jing Ai Ng’s hands, high art is the ultimate hood ornament in a Miami of country clubs and liquor stores, fake IDs, and luxury event scams, where the real currency is clout and everyone’s running an angle. A crime ring movie with a distinctly Asian American take, FORGE’s ensemble cast of Kelly Marie Tran (The Wedding Banquet, Raya and the Last Dragon), Andie Ju (Beef), and Brandon Soo Hoo serves the adrenaline of faking it and taking it. - Christina Ree FORGE Director: JING AI NG USA | ENGLISH, CANTONESE, SPANISH | 2025 | 114 MIN Cast: Kelly Marie Tran, Andie Ju, Brandon Soo Hoo, Sonya Walger Official Selection, 2025 SXSW Film Festival THU, NOV 6 @ 7:30 PM OPENING NIGHT FILM FREE pre-screening reception for All-Fest Pass and Opening Night ticketholders at La Paloma Theater. Pre-Screening Reception: 5:30 – 6:45 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 6 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 Single mother Irene (Lucy Liu) runs a printing shop in Rosemead, California, while caring for her teenage son Joe (Lawrence Shou), who has long struggled with schizophrenia. As if her recent terminal cancer diagnosis weren’t enough, Irene’s fears multiply when she begins to suspect that Joe is fantasizing about a mass shooting at his school. Battling a broken system and her own declining health, she resolves to protect her son no matter the cost. What can she do? It’s a question that lingers with devastating weight and quiet horror by the film’s end. Inspired by true events, ROSEMEAD confronts the stigma surrounding mental illness within the Asian American community, especially in a society that too often fails to support them. At the heart of the film lies a raw, unflinching portrayal of motherhood—not as a virtue, but as a desperate, relentless fight against one’s own prejudice and a world that offers no help— brought to life in a career-defining, soul-baring performance by the extraordinary Lucy Liu. - Wentao Ma ROSEMEAD Director: ERIC LIN USA | ENGLISH, MANDARIN | 2025 | 97 MIN Cast: Lucy Liu, Lawrence Shou, Orion Lee, Jennifer Lim, Madison Hu, James Chen Audience Award, 2025 Locarno Film Festival Official Selection, 2025 Tribeca Film Festival FREE pre-screening reception for All-Fest Pass and Centerpiece ticketholders at Ultrastar Cinemas Mission Valley. Pre-Screening Reception: 4:30 – 6:30 PM CENTERPIECE FILM SUN, NOV 9 @ 6:45 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 7 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 After arriving to the US from the Philippines in 1926, Nicholas G. Viernes started off in the Pacific Northwest, became a migrant farmer, and ended up in Chicago where for decades he was the “unofficial community historian” for the Filipino American community. “Uncle Nick,” as he was known, took his 16mm camera with him around town, capturing in black and white and color the everyday life of middle-class Filipino Americans. They’re dressed in their Sunday best, they relax by the beach, they play baseball in the park, and they wave to the camera. They are ordinary Americans, but they’re also impossibly extraordinary. These are mixed- race families, posing outside of tragedy, strife, or the anthropological logic of immigration narratives. Like Dave Tasuno’s incarceration camp footage, these defiant reels have the gaze of a hobbyist, the neighborly love of a community member, and the impulse of a critic, producing counter- images for a population invisible in society. For decades, Uncle Nick’s home movies sat with photographs, tapes, and other community materials at the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago, from where they were recently brought back to life thanks to the Chicago Film Society and the University of Chicago’s South Side Home Movie Project. Leading the cause was archivist Ashley Dequilla, who spearheaded the restoration and this traveling exhibition project, “The Legacy of Uncle Nick.” Bringing together newly-struck 16mm prints of Viernes’ films from the 1930s with an all-OPM (Original Pilipino Music) set by Les The DJ, Dequilla bridges past and present, the plastic image and the live audience, through glorious analog. Join us for this unforgettable evening of movies and music, from Uncle Nick’s home to our own. - Brian Hu OPM + HOME MOVIES: THE LEGACY OF UNCLE NICK 90 MIN MEMBER SCREENING 16mm home movies accompanied by live vinyl musical set by Les The DJ. FREE pre-screening reception and after-party for Pac Arts members, All-Fest Pass, and OPM + HOME MOVIES: THE LEGACY OF UNCLE NICK ticketholders at Ultrastar Cinemas Mission Valley. Pre-Screening Reception: 5:00 – 7:00 PM Post-Screening After-Party: TBD Films and archival materials courtesy of the Filipino Historical Society of Chicago. Original score curated by Les Talusan. TUE, NOV 11 @ 7:00 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 8 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 Single-mom Shu-fen is on the cusp of breaking free. With her ex- husband languishing on his deathbed, she sets up a noodle stand in a busy Taipei night market, her two daughters in tow. Five-year-old I-Jing is especially enamored by the nightlife, skipping past stalls, helping serve customers, and befriending the neighboring hawker who has a crush on her mom. I-Jing’s 20-year-old sister I-Ann has extracurricular interests of her own, playing footsie (and more) with her boss at a betelnut stand. All three have much to prove against a society hell-bent on punishing women who work, who lust, and even who are left-handed. In her first film as solo director, Shih-Ching Tsou hits the pavement running with a whip-fast feature full of laughs, gasps, and heart. It’s a Taipei seen through the eyes of a galloping kid and guerrilla cinematographers with the instincts of a shoplifter. The pace befits a story of girls growing up fast, and young grandmas still in the hustle. The camera is in perpetual motion, I-Jing can’t help but dance, and I-Ann rockets through the city on her scooter. There’s even a meerkat on the loose! The raw energy, grounded in ordinary spaces and the plight of city-dwellers elbowing their way to self-sufficiency, isn’t surprising coming from Tsou, a long-time collaborator of Sean Baker on contemporary classics like Take Out, Tangerine, and The Florida Project. And as in those films, LEFT-HANDED GIRL brings to life a community in the pressure cooker and the sisters and mothers who refuse to back down. - Brian Hu FREE pre- and post-screening receptions and after-party for All-Fest Pass and Closing Night ticketholders at Ultrastar Cinemas Mission Valley. Pre-Screening Reception: 5:30 – 6:45 PM Post-Screening After-Party: 9:30 – 11:00 PM LEFT-HANDED GIRL 左撇子女孩 Director: SHIH-CHING TSOU TAIWAN, FRANCE, USA, UK | MANDARIN, TAIWANESE | 2025 | 109 MIN Cast: Shih-Yuan Ma, Janel Tsai, Nina Ye, Teng-Hui Huang Official Selection, 2025 Cannes Critics’ Week Taiwan’s Best International Film Submission, 2026 Academy Awards CLOSING NIGHT FILM SAT, NOV 15 @ 7:00 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 9 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 25 CATS FROM QATAR Director: MYE HOANG USA, QATAR | ENGLISH, URDU | 2025 | 95 MIN Official Selection, 2025 Sidewalk Film Festival Official Selection, 2025 Tallgrass Film Festival An international team of cat rescuers must work against the clock to get 25 cats from Qatar to the US so they can be adopted, in this new documentary from the makers of Cat Daddies. The plan, hatched by Katy, a Milwaukee cat cafe owner and flight attendant, is audacious and urgent. In a city where there is one street cat for every person, nearly 90% of Doha’s human residents are temporary workers—many of whom want companionship during their stay, but must leave their pets behind when they leave. Despite the wealth of oil-producing Qatar, the lack of investment in the care of street cats has led to an informal network of volunteer rescuers hailing from throughout Asia. Umair (Pakistan) secretly shelters 50 cats at his workplace while tending to colonies across town. Lana (Jordan) and Monira (Iran) rehabilitate 300 sick and disabled cats in a rented four- story “cat castle.” Valerie (Singapore) and Lenny (the Philippines) sometimes find adopters in their home countries. Ashok and VJ wish to rehome their rescues as they plan to return to India. With just four days to clear health checks and finalize paperwork, the team is assisted by Zaman, an accidental rescue driver from Bangladesh, and veterinarians like Dr. Mir, working around the clock to prepare Manu, Marley, Lady, Goose, Penelope, Dr. Garfield, and others for their epic journey to their forever homes. - Wilda Wong Preceded by: A WALK INTO THE AFTERLIFE JIYUN JEONG | LUXEMBOURG | 2025 | 4 MIN A small cat journeys into the garden of the afterlife in search of a magical flower. The heart of our festival in all of its glorious colors—including a son’s tribute to one of Asian American cinema’s founding fathers. SAT, NOV 15 @ 3:50 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 10 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 BEFORE THE MOON FALLS Director: KIMBERLEE BASSFORD USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 101 MIN NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Special Mention - Best International Feature, 2025 Doc Edge Festival Kimberlee Bassford spent eight years documenting Sia Figiel, assembling footage with the care of threading flowers into an ula. Her film followed Samoa's most celebrated writer—the woman who broke silence around women's sexuality in Pacific literature—from literary triumph complicated by bipolar disorder to personal tragedy. But in 2024, Figiel killed fellow writer Dr. Carol Sinavaiana-Gabbard, and the garland snapped. BEFORE THE MOON FALLS begins as celebration and becomes witnessing: brilliance and destruction held in one frame. Figiel said writing required "pain or suffering or trauma that has to be endured in order to see the whole." She lived this truth completely. As Samoa’s first woman novelist, Figiel challenged colonial and religious mandates while carrying intergenerational trauma. Bassford's camera stays present through it all—the spasmodic treatments, the family fractures, the moments when medication stopped and mainland exile began. Like the Southern Cross that guides Pacific navigators, Figiel was a star by which others steered. Now fallen, she has us ask: How do we reckon with the full humanity of those whose light illuminates and burns? - Anthony Yooshin Kim BECAUSE OF YOU: A HISTORY OF KILAWIN KOLEKTIBO Dahil Sa 'Yo: Ang Storya Ng Kilawin Kolektibo Director: BARBARA MALARAN, DESIREENA ALMORADIE USA | ENGLISH, TAGALOG | 2025 | 40 MIN "Are you a lesbian? Here’s my card… Are you a dyke? Call me.” Between zany pick-up lines and cheeky call-outs, this documentary is quite the charmer–full of sweet talking chismis and hugot from the heart! BECAUSE OF YOU is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Kilawin Kolektibo—a pioneering Pinay Queer Collective based in New York City in the mid-nineties. Through a series of iconic archival footage and modern-day accounts laden with massage-train interviews and camp sing- alongs—community members trace the heartfelt intricacies of their political affiliations and attractions, flirting between the crossfires of memory and possibility: Who were we to each other? Where are we now? Filmmakers and former members, Barbara Malaran and Desireena Almoradie reunite to both preserve and transform their shared history altogether. Part community scrapbook, part personal diary, this film is a love-letter to the Barkada, passed between eager hands and bursting at the seams with queer utopic desire. Communities may change, but collectivity lives on. Equal parts tender and plucky, BECAUSE OF YOU embraces its own nostalgia, piecing together a collective memory unapologetically welcoming of all the ways we rise and fall to our deeply human need for belonging. - Che’Li Shown with: SO TO SPEAK CELINE PARREÑAS SHIMIZU | USA | ENGLISH, TAGALOG | 2025 | 29 MIN A Filipina American college student uses art to encourage new sexualities for herself and other Asian American women. SPECTERS AND BONES ASHLEY DEQUILLA | USA | ENGLISH | 2024 | 13 MIN Experimental documentary of the submerged legacy of Dr. William Jones (1871-1909). MON, NOV 10 @ 7:50 PMTUE, NOV 11 @ 4:00 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 11 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 CHARACTERS DISAPPEARING Director: CONNOR SEN WARNICK USA | ENGLISH, MANDARIN | 2025 | 85 MIN Cast: Yuka Murakami, Dylan Breaux, Connor Sen Warnick, Eleanor Yung Centerpiece Film, 2025 CAAMFest Official Selection, 2025 New/Next Film Festival Manhattan’s Chinatown, 1970s. Mei (Yuka Murakami) and her cousin Chris (Connor Sen Warnick) drift through life while drawn to the mysterious, half-forgotten story of a senior family member, passed down by their grandmother. Meanwhile, Mei’s partner Leonard (Dylan Breaux) injects a fiery radical spirit into the narrative as the historical tide of revolution sweeps through the fractured yet resilient local community. In his strikingly stylish and visionary feature debut, filmmaker Connor Sen Warnick conjures a world where reality and imagination, history and mythology, the familiar and the strange, overlap and collide. Inspired by true events surrounding Asian American political and arts collectives such as Basement Workshop and I Wor Kuen, CHARACTERS DISAPPEARING interlaces historical detail with poetic realism. The film deciphers the layered atmosphere of Asian American radicalism shaped by the influence of the Black Panther Party, student movements, and global Maoism. Warnick approaches this era with care and curiosity, crafting a bold visual language that pushes the temporal and spatial boundaries of what cinema can accomplish in its engagement with Asian American history. - Wentao Ma BUNNYLOVR Director: KATARINA ZHU USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 93 MIN Cast: Katarina Zhu, Rachel Sennott, Austin Amelio, Perry Yung Official Selection, 2025 Sundance Film Festival A cam girl is gifted a bunny from a client. Meanwhile, a reconciliation with a dying father complicates everything, but it’s not the usual daddy issues. When a lifeless day job, hookups with an ex, and best friend chemistry start to sour, she falls into a rabbit hole of fantasy, reality, subversions of power, and unstable New York City relationships. Drawing from her own experiences, director Katarina Zhu plays the protagonist Becca, a rootless Chinese American New Yorker moonlighting as a cam girl longing for some sort of connection. BUNNYLOVR unfolds in the softness of a rekindling father-daughter relationship, an unexpected lie, an increasingly unsafe entanglement, a sun-soaked baptism illuminated by Daisy Zhou’s cinematography. A complicated female friendship with Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby) is refreshingly explored, and Austin Amelio as Becca’s obsessive client slowly creeps under the skin. Zhu takes us through the false intimacy of online sex work and pastel expectations of girlhood in a feature film debut that puts her squarely on the American indie map. - Michelle Sui Preceded by: AND HERE WE ARE CHRISTIAN YAMANE | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 7 MIN Four friends capture their search for meaning and connection through a VHS camera. WED, NOV 12 @ 6:30 PMSAT, NOV 8 @ 7:20 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 12 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 DEBUT, OR, OBJECTS OF THE FIELD OF DEBRIS AS CURRENTLY CATALOGUED Director: JULIAN CASTRONOVO USA | ENGLISH, FRENCH | 2025 | 78 MIN Cast: Julian Castronovo, Song Hui Official Selection, 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam Official Selection, 2025 MoMA Doc Fortnight In 2021, Julian Castronovo, a young, handsome, and depressed artist moves to the Lower East Side of New York. He receives a letter from an unknown sender and then finds hidden objects inside his walls. This sets Castronovo off on an investigation that leads him into the worlds of Shenzhen art forgery factories, Hollywood pitch meetings, and San Diego’s Mt. Hope Cemetery–all in hopes of finding a decades-missing conceptual artist, Fawn Ma, a woman he’s never met but feels intimately connected to. A hypnotic work of metafiction about parsing truth and delusion on glitching pixelated screens, DEBUT, OR, OBJECTS OF THE FIELD OF DEBRIS AS CURRENTLY CATALOGUED is like Where in the World is Carmen San Diego meets I Saw the TV Glow. Castronovo makes paranoia into praxis. The feeling that everything is connected and somehow related to you is, after all, the promise of the social media era. Combining artistic methods (puppets, CGI, miniatures, diaries) with forensics (brain scans, court documents, surveillance tapes), Castronovo’s film is a doomscroll detective story about finding meaning beyond mediation. - Lev Kalman FREE ARTIST TALK Wed., Nov 12, 4:00–5:00 PM with filmmaker Julian Castronovo at University of San Diego, Warren Auditorium, Room 116. DECATHLON: THE CK YANG & RAFER JOHNSON STORY Director: FRANK CHEN TAIWAN, USA | ENGLISH, MANDARIN | 2024 | 45 MIN WEST COAST PREMIERE What is a legacy? Surely, an Olympic medal leaves a legacy, especially a medal in the decathlon, considered the event that determines the greatest athlete in the world. For Taiwan’s C.K. Yang—the “Iron Man of Asia”—legacy in the country that he so proudly represented on the world stage was never a given. But in the eyes of the American Rafer Johnson, another kind of legacy would be forever secured. A self-proclaimed “two-man United Nations,” C.K. Yang and Rafer Johnson were more than just fierce rivals. They were dear friends. After meeting for the first time at the 1956 Summer Olympic Games, Taiwan’s government sent Yang to UCLA to train with track and field superstar Johnson and legendary coach Ducky Drake with the express purpose of winning a medal at the next Olympics. Amid the dawning of the Civil Rights Movement, an ongoing Cold War, and attempted interference by the Chinese government, Yang and Johnson competed at the 1960 Rome Olympics, in arguably the greatest decathlon event in Olympic history. DECATHLON: THE CK YANG AND RAFER JOHNSON STORY is a loving tribute to their unique and almost miraculous symbolism as Black and Asian excellence join together in triumph at the highest level while the entire world watches along. - James Paguyo Preceded by: SURFING TAIWAN: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE JAMES WICKS | USA, TAIWAN | ENGLISH, MANDARIN | 2025 | 18 MIN Three Taiwanese surfers reflect on the past, present, and future of surfing in Taiwan. TUE, NOV 11 @ 7:55 PM FRI, NOV 14 @ 5:30 PM SUN, NOV 9 @ 2:40 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 13 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 THE GAS STATION ATTENDANT Director: KARLA MURTHY USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 83 MIN WEST COAST PREMIERE Best Documentary Feature, 2025 Nashville Film Festival Grand Jury Special Mention, 2025 Sheffield DocFest The gas station attendant is director Karla Murthy’s father, and his job is a side gig in the middle of the Texan night. It’s also the latest stop on a seemingly minor but utterly incredible life trajectory. He’s a serial entrepreneur, who was once homeless in the streets of Bangalore, who found himself serendipitously in Texas, and then as a Boeing engineer, a restaurateur and trade show salesman, with varying degrees of non-success. Along the way, he made slightly-more-than-superficial friendships everywhere he went, never quite taking root anywhere. Murthy’s touch in this documentary feature is its motive force. Mixing home movies and late-night phone calls with her father while he worked, THE GAS STATION ATTENDANT explores the multiple vantage points of their complicated relationship–the ease of his love, their blended Filipino Indian family, the lore of his immigration, his multiple small businesses and failures, the constant threat of not making money—and all of it keeps going, because the gas station attendant was never going to be a self-made man but was always effortlessly self-making. - Cheyenne Paiva FUCKTOYS Director: ANNAPURNA SRIRAM USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 106 MIN Cast: Annapurna Sriram, Sadie Scott, Damian Young, Brandon Flynn Special Jury Award, Narrative Feature, 2025 SXSW Film Festival Special Jury Mention, 2025 Fantasia International Film Festival There’s a curse on Trashtown, and the only way for spunky naïve sex worker AP to stop losing her teeth and lift her curse is to slaughter a baby lamb for a thousand dollars. With the help of her dependable moped, her friend Danni, a just-out- of-prison sapphic spirit, and larger-than-life clients with cash, she can raise the money to be free! Assless chaps, golden showers, and coke parties are aplenty in this pre-millennium alternate universe of humid Trashtown’s hazy landscapes. On her version of the tarot’s Fool’s Journey, AP’s odyssey sucks off differing attitudes towards intimacy, class, and sex work. Meanwhile, arguments are hidden inside maximalist 16mm saturated glittery grimy fantasies. Inspired by John Waters and Gregg Araki with a special appearance by Big Freedia, FUCKTOYS is an unhinged girly pop fever dream. For her debut feature, director, writer, and star Annapurna Sriram is a charismatic camp crush, and FUCKTOYS asks what’s worse: to be a whore or be invisible. The answer is queered through swampy sublimity. - Alissa Tu Preceded by: LAST CALL WINNIE CHEUNG | USA | ENGLISH, CANTONESE | 8 MIN A fantasy short about Claudia Chow, a fast riding motorcycle rebel who crashes into a mystical Chinese snake woman inside a magical bamboo forest. SAT, NOV 8 @ 3:15 PMSUN, NOV 9 @ 4:15 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 14 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 HONEYJOON Director: LILIAN T. MEHREL USA, PORTUGAL | ENGLISH | 2025 | 75 MIN Cast: Ayden Mayeri, Amira Casar, José Condessa Official Selection, 2025 Tribeca Film Festival Lela and her daughter June travel to romantic Azores to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the passing of their husband and father. However, tensions grow as they realize they want different things. June has the hots for their surfer tour guide (and actually everyone in Portugal.) Her mother is equally consumed with rage over Iran’s oppression of women… and how to get June to cover up. For June, freedom is beauty, which to her Persian Kurdish refugee mother looks like escapism. Lela wants to confront harsh realities head on, which to June looks macabre. What began as tracing the footsteps of a life-changing journey June’s father took as a young man, quickly becomes the mundane annoyances of travelling with family, including sharing a bed. Against a backdrop of stunning oceans and honeymooners, mother and daughter navigate each other’s differences. But they also discover how suffering can give perspective for joy, and running towards life can include grief. Sexy, tender, and comedic, filmmaker Lilian T. Mehrel’s feature debut HONEYJOON offers an unexpected release, one that frees June and Lela from the stuckness they’ve been in and provides them a path to celebrate being alive together as mother and daughter. -Laura Skokan LUCKY LU Director: LLOYD LEE CHOI USA, CANADA | MANDARIN, ENGLISH | 2025 | 103 MIN Cast: Chang Chen, Fala Chen, Carabelle Manna Wei Official Selection, 2025 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Official Selection, 2025 Toronto International Film Festival For Lu Jia Cheng, it’s been a day of impossible luck: a new apartment in New York, just in time to show his wife and child flying in from China. It’s been five years of separation while Lu saved every dollar to bring them over. But after his e-bike gets stolen, his only income as a food deliverer vanishes, and Lu’s world suddenly crashes around him. Without a job or rent money, Lu must race against time to find $1200 for a deposit before his family arrives. With everything on the line, Lu wrestles for scraps from pawn shops, former friends, and coworkers, in an unforgiving world of bruised friendships and brutal reckonings. All Lu needs is a bike or just enough cash for one regular day, a pocket of time where he can live a dream. Superstar Chang Chen (The Grandmaster, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) plays a man hustling desperately at the bottom of America’s grand pyramid scheme. But Lu is also the quintessential immigrant dreamer-family provider, especially for his daughter Queenie (the scene-stealing Carabelle Mana Wei), whom he tries to protect from survival’s corrosive logic. Through a story inspired by bicycle delivery workers during COVID, director Lloyd Lee Choi takes us through a New York rarely seen in Asian American cinema—the invisible, fraught world of immigrant gig labor. Produced by Destin Daniel Cretton, Choi’s debut feature draws from his two shorts Closing Dynasty (SDAFF ‘23) and Same Old (SDAFF ‘22) in a searing portrait of immigrant life awash in trickle down precarity, of people rarely noticed yet on the constant brink of complete erasure as they scramble under the monstrosity of the American dream. - Christina Ree SAT, NOV 8 @ 1:00 PM SUN, NOV 9 @ 1:30 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 15 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 MOUSE Director: KENNY RICHES USA | ENGLISH, JAPANESE | 2025 | 106 MIN Cast: Kenny Oiwa Riches, Sarah Coffey, Kimball Farley, Hiroko Oiwa Riches WEST COAST PREMIERE Socially awkward, living in the garage of his Japanese mother's house, and not quite fitting in with the rest of Salt Lake City, Denny commits minor thefts—swiping bikes, car break-ins but not robberies—to pass the time and give himself a quiet kick. He's also lonely, so an ad for a pen- pal service catches his eye. Unfortunately, on the other end of the letters is a con artist couple. As they exchange correspondences, both sides pretend to be people they're not, and very quickly, Denny’s loneliness and desperation collide into a dark climax where petty crime can quickly bleed into hard-time territory. Director Kenny Riches also stars as Denny with the awkward affect of a loser we somehow recognize and with a disregard for rich people that keeps us rooting for him. With its thoughtful style and window into Denny’s life, MOUSE delivers the pleasures of an American indie crime film, with quirky outsiders, charming baddies, backfiring plots, karmic intervention, and quip dialogue. - Brian Hu REMOVAL OF THE EYE Director: ARTEMIS SHAW, PRASHANTH KAMALAKANTHAN USA | ENGLISH, GREEK, TELUGU | 2024 | 93 MIN Cast: Artemis Shaw, Prashanth Kamalakanthan, Katerina Shaw, Niko Kamalakanthan WEST COAST PREMIERE Official Selection, 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam Ram and Kallia are New York-based new parents, and their baby, Niko, cannot sleep. Ram, an aspiring rapper, is under the influence of a “streamlined, militaristic” sleep training program that he heard about from a neighbor, which is in tension with Kallia’s anti-cry-it-out blogosphere philosophies. Against the backdrop of their chronic exhaustion, this conflict spirals into a dynamic of deception, aloofness, and parental spats. Meanwhile, Kallia’s parents live downstairs. After her father falls, Kallia and Ram become temporary caretakers of her ailing mother, Katerina. Katerina believes that the evil eye has touched them and they must perform an exorcism on baby Niko. While desperately trying to shield her son from this desire, Kallia also needs to finish her dissertation, navigating playtime, autoethnographic trends in academia, job interviews that demand one word answers only, and literally putting out fires. A follow-up to Prashanth Kamalakanthan and Artemis Shaw’s debut feature New Strains (SDAFF ‘23), REMOVAL OF THE EYE revisits Ram and Kallia in a much more domestic phase of life, bringing the whole family into the work. Co-starring Shaw’s parents and their own young son, Kamalakanthan and Shaw’s cocktail of aesthetics blend the intimate and archival with the satirical and unsettling, in an off-kilter portrait of early parental somnambulism. - Kim-Anh Schreiber THU, NOV 13 @ 8:00 PM SAT, NOV 8 @ 5:35 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 16 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 THE ROSE: COME BACK TO ME Director: EUGENE YI USA, SOUTH KOREA | ENGLISH, KOREAN | 2025 | 85 MIN Official Selection, 2025 Tribeca Film Festival In this charming music documentary by Eugene Yi (Free Chol Soo Lee, Spring Showcase 2022), the curtain gets pulled back on a quartet of K-pop trainee dropouts who chart their own musical odyssey as indie-rock band success story, The Rose. THE ROSE: COME BACK TO ME begins on the Coachella stage, an improbable climax for former street buskers who rose to overnight sensation on YouTube, developing a millions-strong global fanbase along the way. It was, as the film recounts, not an inevitable ascendance. The band of Korean and Korean American singers endured a K-pop industry trying to sculpt their image and control their rise, testing the bandmates’ loyalty to each other and the band itself. With fractured dynamics, mandatory military service, mental health struggles, and a looming lawsuit, The Rose eventually intersected with the Asian American Transparent Arts, founded by another trailblazing pop sensation, Far East Movement. As THE ROSE gives a thrilling behind-the-scenes look at the band’s origins, rebellions, and rebirth, Eugene Yi also tells the story of musicians taking control of their own art and finding community where they can blossom. Prepare to have your bias-wrecked. - Jeremy Aranda SOUTHEAST ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNEYS Director: QUYEN NGUYEN-LE, JOUA LEE GRANDE, OANH-NHI NGUYEN USA | ENGLISH, KHMER, LAO, HMONG, BUNONG, MIEN, VIETNAMESE | 2025 | 70 MIN WORLD PREMIERE “We gotta write our own history books.” Presented as a feature documentary with five chapters, SOUTHEAST ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNEYS follows different refugee communities across the US, from Montagnard in North Carolina to the Mien in Oregon. Interviews with California Vietnamese mamas with queer kids, a collective of Southeast Asian vendors at FDR Park, canvassing youth, and Hmong farmers who trade crops with their neighbors, unearth untold unique refugee stories. History is planted in each film through farming systems, tapestry, cassette tapes, and bustling park marketplaces. Found in these conversations are desires for belonging, revitalization, and spaces where the past doesn’t define the landscape but becomes the foundation that promotes intergenerational understanding, cross-cultural exchange, and knowledge to pass down from one generation to another. These odysseys answer the question: what does it mean to be in America? And through the different explorations of Montagnard, Hmong, Mien, Khmer and Vietnamese refugee communities, audiences witness a multi-faceted perspective of healing, collaboration and meaning-making. Resettlement looks different for everyone, but the transformative communities that blossom in each story pulsate with a love to understand the past, nurture the present, and nourish the future for Southeast Asian Americans everywhere. – Alissa Tu THU, NOV 13 @ 6:35 PM SUN, NOV 9 @ 12:55 PM SAT, NOV 8 @ 12:30 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 17 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 YEAR OF THE CAT Director: TONY NGUYEN USA, VIETNAM | ENGLISH, VIETNAMESE | 2025 | 98 MIN Audience Award, 2025 CAAMFest Special Jury Prize, Documentary Feature, 2025 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival YEAR OF THE CAT follows Vietnamese American filmmaker Tony Nguyen as he searches for the identity of his biological father, lost in the aftermath of the Fall of Saigon. Crafted in the style of an investigative home movie, this moving and highly personal documentary delicately intertwines moments of humor and tenderness, offering an intimate account of how children of refugees are impacted by war and loss. Tony has wondered about his biological father his entire life, even more so after having children of his own. His mother, who gave birth to him upon her arrival to the States in 1975, thinks she knows who the father is, but her memories have been long tainted due to time and traumatic exile. Undeterred, Tony takes it upon himself to trace his roots, picking up clues thanks to 23andMe and the help of an extraordinary ensemble of eager friends, family, and strangers. His search traverses continents and decades, taking us through years of detective work, individual and collective effort, emotional rollercoasters, and hope running out of steam. Throughout, Tony is unapologetically himself, displaying moments of raw emotion, vulnerability, and love. Years in the making, Nguyen offers a space for transformation and healing on his path to confronting generational pain and unpacking inherited trauma. - Zaza Nguyen FRI, NOV 7 @ 7:30 PM THIRD ACT Director: TADASHI NAKAMURA USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 91 MIN Official Selection, 2025 Sundance Film Festival Opening Film, 2025 CAAMFest Official Selection, 2025 BlackStar Film Festival Tad Nakamura always knew he'd make a film about his father. As Parkinson's takes hold, both men enter the frame and become the story. This time, Tad can't hide behind the lens. His voice catches as he asks questions he's never asked. Robert Nakamura, who once commanded sets as the "godfather of Asian American film,” now needs help with simple tasks—yet his timing remains sharp, sliding halfway into frame on the stairlift before easing back. We see him sorting negatives, deciding what to digitize. His wife Karen becomes caregiver. Home movies mix with hospital visits. Every holiday becomes a production shoot. In Hawai'i, Robert contemplates his ashes: "I was thinking the ocean... or Manzanar." For Tad—two weeks old on the set of Hito Hata (1980), once choosing touchdowns over film history—the camera uncovers what Robert kept buried: depression, self-hatred, wanting to be let off at the corner, ashamed of his gardener father. At Manzanar, three generations stand among the remains: Robert teaching grandson Prince about the camps while Tad films, capturing how stories pass between bodies—in the tremor of a hand, the lean toward listening. "Less history, more soul," Robert says. A filmmaker filming a filmmaker at the end—where any take might be the last. - Anthony Yooshin Kim FREE post-screening reception 8:30-9:30 PM for All-Fest Pass, THIRD ACT ticketholders, and AARP Members. FRI, NOV 14 @ 6:45 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 18 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 Popcorn-perfect films from Asia— from quirky J-horror, a possessed vacuum cleaner, queer overthrows, an overstaying uncle, and underdog football misfits. Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 19 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 BLIND LOVE 失明 Director: JULIAN CHOU TAIWAN | MANDARIN | 2025 | 148 MIN Cast: Ariel Lin, Wu Ke-xi, Jimmy Liu, Frederick Lee NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Official Selection, 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam Shu-yi (Ariel Lin) appears to lead an enviable life. Her husband is a rising star on his way to becoming the president of a hospital. Her teenage son (Jim Liu, Disney’s American Born Chinese) is a gifted Go player, and her younger son is an inquisitive child just beginning to explore the world. However, when she unexpectedly reconnects with a former liaison (Wu Ke-xi, Blue Sun Palace), her seemingly perfect world begins to unravel. Their reunion forces Shu-yi to confront her long-buried past, threatening to destroy everything she has achieved. BLIND LOVE is a poignant portrait of a woman who begins to dismantle the carefully constructed life she was told to desire. What unfolds is a quietly radical journey of emotional awakening and subtle rebellion against deeply ingrained patriarchal expectations. Director Julian Chou meditates on how societal order can entrap one’s fidelity to their true self, offering a daring yet empathetic exploration of identity, love, and personal truth. Anchored by bold storytelling and layered performances, the film broadens the emotional scope of contemporary melodrama through a non-judgmental lens on choices and their consequences. - Wentao Ma SUN, NOV 9 @ 4:20 PM CLASH 冲·撞 Director: JIANG JIA-CHEN CHINA | MANDARIN, ENGLISH, SPANISH | 2025 | 124 MIN Cast: Li Jiuxiao, Wang Qianyuan, Pan Binlong, Yang Haoyu NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Official Selection, 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam It’s American football with Chinese characteristics in CLASH, a rowdy sports comedy that also happens to be based on a true story. The film’s unlikely hero is Liu Yonggan, a delivery man known for his footspeed while fending off bullies during his tofu pudding deliveries. On one run, he inadvertently passes by some footballers who see in him the answer to their gridiron woes. They recruit him on the spot. Now to fill in the rest of the team. Motivated by a one million RMB prize, Yonggan gathers a colorful cast of neighborhood misfits, including a freight hauler, a gangster, and a middle-aged corporate manager. As they overcome personal struggles and rally together, the film delivers all the beloved elements of an underdog sports drama and a ripped-from-the-headlines culture clash. - Yang Jiang SAT, NOV 8 @ 2:30 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 20 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 HAUNTED MOUNTAINS: THE YELLOW TABOO 山忌 黃衣小飛俠 Director: TSAI CHIA-YING TAIWAN | MANDARIN, TAIWANESE | 2025 | 85 MIN Cast: Jasper Liu, Angela Yuan, Tsao Yu-ning US PREMIERE Official Selection, 2025 Fantasia International Film Festival It’s been five years since the fateful hiking trip when Jia-ming and his girlfriend Yu-xin lost their friend in the woods. In the years since, Jia-ming has been consumed with survivor’s guilt, and wants nothing more than to leave the past behind. So on their next hike together, Jia-ming packs a ring with the intention of proposing. But Yu-xin dies. Before he’s given any semblance of an explanation, Jia-ming reawakens to the same morning. He’s stuck in a time loop, each of which ends in the death of his beloved. As he seeks a way out with him, Yu-xin, and their relationship intact, he finds that the curse is bigger than the both of them. It turns out that deep in the misty mountains linger rumors of bloodsoaked rituals, unresolved spirits, and missing bodies. Inspired by the Taiwanese folk tale of the “yellow taboo”—when you’re lost in the woods and face a man in a yellow raincoat—HAUNTED MOUNTAINS combines urban legend, science fiction, and aching romance. FRI, NOV 14 @ 9:15 PM MON, NOV 10 @ 7:55 PM FAMILY MATTERS 我家的事 Director: PAN KE-YIN TAIWAN | TAIWANESE, MANDARIN | 2025 | 99 MIN Cast: Lan Wei-Hua, Alexia Kao, Tseng Jing-Hua WEST COAST PREMIERE Audience Choice Award, 2025 Taipei Film Festival Best Performer, 2025 Osaka Asian Film Festival Best Feature Film, 2025 New York Asian Film Festival While applying for a tuition waiver, Spring (Queena Huang) discovers a truth that shatters her world: she’s adopted. When she confronts her mother, a bitter and resentful Autumn (Alexia Kao) responds icily by asking, after all she has done to raise her, if carrying her for ten months really makes a difference. So begins the slow unraveling of the secrets and sacrifices of the Hsiao family—daughter Spring, son Summer, mother Autumn, and father Winter— in Taiwanese director Pan Ke-yin's FAMILY MATTERS. Structured in four non-chronological episodes, the film expertly takes the viewer through each member's unique perspective, revealing how their stories—like the seasons—are both part of a whole and utterly distinct. At the center of it, the father is a tragic figure whose gambling addiction and cowardice threaten to shatter the entire family. An extension of his Golden Horse- nominated short film, My Sister, director Pan Ke-yin has returned to his cast and successfully evoked an engaging second performance from them in this emotionally rich contemporary family drama. - Yang Jiang MON, NOV 10 @ 5:45 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 21 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 HOW DARE YOU? ふつうの子ども Director: MIPO O JAPAN | JAPANESE | 2025 | 96 MIN Cast: Tetta Shimada, Yu Aoi, Shunsuke Kazama, Kumi Takiuchi WEST COAST PREMIERE It’s crush at first sight when 10-year-old bug-obsessed Yuishi notices his classmate, the eco-avenging Kokoa. As Yuishi researches methane emissions to impress Kokoa, charismatic classmate Haruto convinces them to take action. With a hop, skip, and a beat (and handmade “Don’t Use Cars” posters), these three try to change the minds of adults to take better care of the environment for the sake of their future. Except soon their gleeful mischief sparks copycat rivals and unexpected trouble. And amidst all the commotion, Yuishi’s love for Kokoa bubbles up gently, in spite of her and Haruto’s growing bond. With a remarkable cast of child actors, HOW DARE YOU? is an anti-grown up, visual burst of primary colors and sunshine, an ode to childhood ideals of how the world should work, and wanting to make it a better place despite having limited resources to do so. Director Mipo O (Living in Two Worlds, SDAFF ‘24) captures this coming-of-age pocket of time of becoming the person you want to be—to fail, try again, cause disruptions, run around, get a few cuts and bruises, fall in love, start a revolution, and feel unstoppable. - Kyraalessandra Reyes MON, NOV 10 @ 6:10 PM SAT, NOV 8 @ 12:20 PM KY NAM INN Quán Kỳ Nam Director: LEON LE VIETNAM | VIETNAMESE | 2025 | 130 MIN Cast: Lien Binh Phat, Do Thi Hai Yen WEST COAST PREMIERE Official Selection, 2025 Toronto International Film Festival Approvoise: a process where two strangers gradually become familiar, understand one another, and become intimate. In a post-war Saigon, Khang (Lien Binh Phat of Song Lang), a young Northern translator, moves into a new apartment and meets Ky Nam, a private widow who oversees an inn. When an accident forces Ky Nam to rely on Khang’s help, her inn begins to hum in shredded pork, literary references, and whispered romantic yearning. It’s 1985 and Vietnam’s post-war politics perfume this star-crossed love story. Banned music wafts through each floor, scheduled power outages reveal new secrets, and evening television shows nonchalantly announce the war’s effect on everyday life. Neighbors fill the screen with gossip and stories as these forbidden lovers creep around community spaces. For fans of In the Mood for Love, director Leon Le (Song Lang, SDAFF Spring Showcase ‘19) adds to his repertoire of desire with his sophomore film. Reveling in a nostalgic Vietnam with vinyl, sizzling cooking moments, decadent colors in dreamy 35mm film, and soft-spoken dialogue, KY NAM INN wafts in intimacy as it echoes a sonorous and capricious Vietnam. - Alissa Tu SAT, NOV 15 @ 1:10 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 22 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 MANOK 이반리 장만옥 Director: LEE YU-JIN SOUTH KOREA | KOREAN | 2025 | 108 MIN Cast: Yang Mal-bok, Sung Jae-yun, Park Wan-kyu, Kim Jung-young Official Selection, 2025 BFI Flare London LGBTQI+ Film Festival Official Selection, 2025 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival It’s practically the worst day of her life. Manok is the middle-aged owner of Rainbow, a barely afloat lesbian bar in Seoul, and just received news that her estranged mother has died. On top of that, a younger, trendier venue has quietly replaced Rainbow as the Pride afterparty hotspot. Feeling betrayed by her girlfriend and the queer scene that once revered her, Manok decides to jump ship and start anew in her rural hometown. Back in small town Iban-ri, Manok is ostracized, and the face of Iban-ri is a mayor who happens to be her homophobic ex-husband. After learning that his term is ending, Manok runs against him, leading a chaotic campaign filled with heart and bravado. But when secrets surface, Manok must decide whether she's running for a cause or against a community unwilling to change. Director Yu-jin Lee crafts a refreshing and boldly endearing queer comedy, as raucous and biting as it is tender. Korean acting vet Yang Mal-bok plays a vibrantly queer mentor who reckons with aging and relevance while cutting a sharply inspiring figure of defiance. Delivering hope without feeling false, MANOK waves a bright rainbow flag, fierce, funny, and full of love. - Dana Del Castillo MON, NOV 10 @ 5:35 PM SUN, NOV 9 @ 4:30 PM MAG MAG 禍禍女 Director: YURIYAN RETRIEVER JAPAN | JAPANESE | 2025 | 113 MIN Cast: Sara Minami, Maeda Oshiro, Aoi Yamada Official Selection, 2025 Hawaii International Film Festival "If you see her, it's too late. If she falls in love with you, the only escape is death." Long trailing hair, menacing clicks, pink ruffles. Mag Mag is a vengeful spirit preying on cute boys who taunted her in high school… or so it seems. Mag Mag kills handsome young bullies, from students to asshole filmmakers, reality show alpha males and little kids. But folks are coming for Mag Mag too. After witnessing Mag Mag kill her art school crush, the slightly unhinged Sanae becomes obsessed with revenge. And when Mag Mag locks eyes on a young child, his mother will do anything to stop him from becoming the next victim. As Mag Mag’s origin story slowly comes to light, MAG MAG combines childhood folklore with psychological twists and quirky turns, taking us to unexpected places. A popular comedian in Japan and two-time contestant on America's Got Talent, director Yuriyan Retriever transforms her own painful romantic experiences into 90s cinematic horror nostalgia with a fresh 2025 update. - Ciera Miana FRI, NOV 7 @ 8:00 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 23 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 MY UNCLE JENS Director: BRWA VAHABPOUR NORWAY, ROMANIA | KURDISH, NORWEGIAN | 2025 | 98 MIN Cast: Peiman Azizpour, Hamza Agoshi, Sarah Francesca Brænne WEST COAST PREMIERE Official Selection, 2025 SXSW Film Festival When an uncle he’s never met unexpectedly shows up in the middle of a rainy night dragging his wheel-less suitcase and lots of cultural baggage, what’s a good Kurdish boy to do? Akam insists Uncle takes the bed while Akam takes the floor and assures the roommates that this is what they do in Iran. Except Uncle Jens stretches tarof hospitality too far even for Akam. Not only do days turn into weeks, but Uncle Jens starts to disrupt the equilibrium of his small Oslo co-op, interrupting morning yoga, swapping out bathroom supplies, maybe even killing the sourdough starter. When Akam discovers his Iranian Kurdish uncle already has a network in town, he begins to suspect Uncle Jens is up to something shady and recruits a lovely immigration expert for help, under the ruse of writing a thriller. As he uncovers more about Uncle Jens' shenanigans, Akam discovers unexpected truths about his family navigating the route from homeland to the semi-underground immigrant networks of Oslo. In this feature film debut, Kurdish-Norwegian Brwa Vahabpour crafts a charming comedy of cultures and generations, where contemporary migrations, unshakable hospitality, and political faultlines are set within the rarely- seen Iranian Scandinavian diaspora. - Christina Ree FRI, NOV 7 @ 5:45 PM SAT, NOV 8 @ 2:40 PM PROJECT Y 프로젝트 Y Director: LEE HWAN SOUTH KOREA | KOREAN | 2025 | 110 MIN Cast: Han So-hee, Jun Jong-seo WEST COAST PREMIERE Official Selection, 2025 Toronto International Film Festival Official Selection, 2025 Busan International Film Festival Just one more night. Beautiful Mi-sun and ace driver Do-kyung have saved every miserable dollar working in the city's seedy underbelly of hostess bars and shady deliveries. Finally, they’ll have a fresh start with a new home and a sun-filled florist shop. Except tomorrow all their dreams will be instantly wiped out by a vicious scam orchestrated by the terrifying kingpin Blackjack. But when Mi-sun (Han So-hee, Gyeongseong Creature) overhears a one-in-a-million chance to steal Blackjack's secret motherlode of gold bars, these sisters-in-revenge go for broke in a desperate plan to reclaim their lives. PROJECT Y’s female-led, adrenaline-filled heist thriller delivers the best of Hong Kong 90s-inspired noir. Director Lee Hwan spices up the ride with memorable evil from Blackjack's cheating wife (played by Kpop star YooA), his sadistic force-of-nature henchwoman Bull, a basketball betting scandal subplot, and a drug-addled back-stabbing den mother who joins the chaos of outrunning a wretched underworld before it swallows everyone whole. - Christina Ree THU, NOV 13 @ 8:35 PM MON, NOV 10 @ 8:15 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 24 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 A USEFUL GHOST ผีีใช้้ได้้ค่่ะ Director: RATCHAPOOM BOONBUNCHACHOKE THAILAND, FRANCE, SINGAPORE, GERMANY | THAI | 2025 | 130 MIN Cast: Davika Hoorne, Wisarut Himmarat, ApasirI Nitibhon Grand Prix, 2025 Cannes Critics’ Week Thailand’s Best International Film Submission, 2026 Academy Awards “Mere particles of dust in the room changed my ladyboy life forever.” When dust—left by the tearing down of a historical monument for the construction of a megamall—blows into the room of our unnamed protagonist, she purchases a vacuum cleaner online, which she later discovers is possessed by a ghost. A sexy repairman arrives to investigate, revealing a widespread phenomenon of vengeful spirits inhabiting the electrical appliances produced at factories whose precarious working conditions led to their deaths. Nat, the daughter-in-law of a factory owner who recently died of dust poisoning, possesses another vacuum cleaner to reunite with her husband March. Their odd reunion as man and vacuum cleaner is scorned by March’s disapproving family, but Nat proves her usefulness as an exorcist, targeting other ghosts whose hauntings are less savory by more powerful political actors. Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke has previously displayed a knack for manipulating tone and genre with Red Aninsri; Or, Tiptoeing on The Still Trembling Berlin Wall (SDAFF ‘20). With his debut feature, Boonbunchachoke takes an absurd premise, playing with the erotic relationship between man and machine, but deftly weaves into it moments of genuine humanist drama and political critique in a country where dust pollution has become an issue of increasing concern. As in life, death is also political, and haunting functions as an act of resistance against national forgetting and the mechanisms of power that seek to erase historical memory. - Justin Nguyen SAT, NOV 8 @ 8:15 PM SUMMER'S CAMERA Director: DIVINE SUNG SOUTH KOREA | KOREAN | 2025 | 83 MIN Cast: Kim Sia Nongshim Shinramyun Award, 2025 Jeonju International Film Festival Wavemaker Award, 2025 Seattle International Film Festival Official Selection, 2025 BFI Flare: London LGBTQI+ Film Festival After a year without taking photos, one look at the school’s star soccer player and Summer hears the shutter click. This click of first queer love also emboldens Summer to finally take the last four shots on an unfinished roll in her late father’s camera, only to unexpectedly find a secret left behind when she has them developed. As Summer retraces the fragments of her father’s past, she finds guidance from the mystery man in the photos, a stranger who reluctantly becomes her mentor, as she tries to make sense of new doubts and desires. Divine Sung’s dreamy and warmly crafted debut explores a girl coming into her own, navigating the joys and mysteries of attraction, sexuality, grief, and familial bonds, one exposure at a time. - Zola Choi Preceded by: SKIPPING STONES ALEX Q | USA | 2024 | 3 MIN A mother celebrates her son's birthday by showing him how to bike. SAT, NOV 8 @ 5:50 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 25 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 THE WAVES WILL CARRY US 人生海海 Director: LAU KEK-HUAT TAIWAN, MALAYSIA | MANDARIN, MALAY, CANTONESE | 2025 | 99 MIN Cast: Vera Chen, Wei Chun-Chan, Fabian Loo NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Best Narrative Feature, Best Director nominations, 2025 Golden Horse Awards Official Selection, 2025 Hawaii International Film Festival After living in Taiwan for many years, Yao returns to Malaysia after the unexpected death of his grifter father. To the surprise of him and his siblings, the religious police claim their father’s body, alleging that he had converted to Islam before he passed and that his body needs to be buried in a Muslim cemetery. The siblings refuse to accept it and try bribery and even graverobbing. But the truth lies in family secrets they’ve chosen to turn their backs to. The real story lies in the chains of migration that run deep in the Lau family. As the film jumps from present day to generations before, we discover a family’s long history of seeking new opportunities across oceans and borders. Their destinations always seem to be places indifferent to their survival. No matter how many displays of patriotism or assimilation, they are always marked as others. What is revealed with each flashback is how deep the roots run. The tensile strength of these generational bonds may not land the Laus in luxury, but allows them the flexibility to redefine themselves anew. - Laura Skokan TUE, NOV 11 @ 6:00 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 26 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 Fresh from Cannes, Toronto, Venice, and other premiere international film festivals, marvel at the latest works by the world’s best directors. BACK HOME 回家 Director: TSAI MING-LIANG TAIWAN | 2025 | 65 MIN Cast: Anong Houngheuangsy WEST COAST PREMIERE Official Selection, 2025 Venice Film Festival Official Selection, 2025 New York Film Festival At the center of a swing carousel, a stray dog is stuck, trying to calculate the perfect moment to slip past the constant incoming blow of children’s legs. This is the most active scene in Tsai Ming-liang’s latest BACK HOME—the background awash in neon pinks, his camera remains focused on the poor animal for the duration of the ride. Time is a central feature of Tsai’s films. His camera trains itself on a subject and remains there longer than what most viewers would find comfortable, sometimes to amusing effect. Filmed on a “small Canon camcorder and a Leica camera” the film documents a trip that Tsai took with actor Anong Houngheuangsy (Days, SDAFF ‘20) to his home village in the Lao countryside. At its core, it is a landscape film, a collection of footage documenting the exteriors of various homes in Anong’s village, many of which are in the middle of construction or unfinished with scaffolding still visible, objects strewn about, process laid bare. Dialogue is sparse and unsubtitled, but sound is everywhere—wind in the trees, the rumble of an engine, idle conversation while preparing food. Tsai’s recent works have seen the director exploring the line between cinema and visual arts, stripping down to the essentials to reveal spiritual and observational potency. - Justin Nguyen TUE, NOV 11 @ 8:10 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 27 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 HUMAN RESOURCE Director: NAWAPOL THAMRONGRATTANARIT THAILAND | THAI | 2025 | 122 MIN Cast: Prapamonton Eiamchan, Paopetch Charoensook, Chanakan Rattana-udom, Pimmada Chaisaksoen US PREMIERE Official Selection, 2025 Venice Film Festival Official Selection, 2025 Busan International Film Festival SDAFF favorite Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit returns with an incisive look at what happens when we treat people as resources. Fren (Prapamonton Eiamchan) works in HR. Part of her job is to interview candidates for her company, painfully aware that only desperate people would work there. When an employee vanishes, she must replace her while grappling with her own complicity in the causes behind her colleague’s disappearance. She’s also pondering what to do with the embryo growing inside her. Does she tell her husband Thame (Paopetch Charoensook)? They’ve been trying for two years, but maybe she can pretend to keep trying a little longer while she weighs her options. How badly does she want to bring new life into the late-stage capitalist nightmare where she is both gatekeeper and prisoner? Thamrongrattanarit (Fast & Feel Love; Mary is Happy, Mary is Happy; Heart Attack; 36) ventures into darker territory as he examines seemingly small choices in a world where lives can be bought, sold, and erased. Can Fren—can we—live as decent people within systems we designed to exploit? - Wilda Wong MAGELLAN Director: LAV DIAZ PORTUGAL, SPAIN, FRANCE, PHILIPPINES, TAIWAN | PORTUGUESE, SPANISH, TAGALOG, FRENCH | 2025 | 160 MIN Cast: Gael García Bernal, Ângela Azevedo, Amado Arjay Babon, Ronnie Lazaro, Hazel Orencio Official Selection, 2025 Cannes Film Festival Philippines Best International Film Submission, 2026 Academy Awards Gael Garcia Bernal plays Ferdinand Magellan in Lav Diaz’s stark, chilling, and uncompromising revisionist history of the Portuguese explorer and his fateful end in what is now the Philippines. His may be a quest for riches, adventure, or religion, but in Diaz’s portrayal, it is also a tale of corpses. We first see a young Magellan in Malacca, less a victorious hero than a wounded snake in the jungle, barely noticing the befallen from both sides, their blood staining the Malayan Archipelago. He returns to Europe to bankroll his next voyage. He marries, but his sacrosanct kinship to family is stretched to a tension point by Magellan’s increasing itch for glory that leads him back east. In Diaz’s telling, Magellan’s quest is less nautical exploration than the long, gradual darkening of the human soul. Diaz doesn’t spare the conquered either. Just as he is disinterested in the adventurer’s courage, he is unromantic about any savage innocent. All exist in a brutal universe of power, idolatry, desperation, and bloodthirst. As always, Diaz has in the back of his mind another Ferdinand: Marcos himself, and the chauvinistic myths of Filipino exceptionalism that can be traced to Magellan’s ultimate slaying. Diaz exhumes this history through the visual language of European painting, inverting colonial landscapes and Renaissance realism, conjuring both God and Devil, transcendence and catastrophe, kings and mythic rebels. - Brian Hu FRI, NOV 14 @ 8:30 PM TUE, NOV 11 @ 3:25 PM TUE, NOV 11 @ 2:30 PM MON, NOV 10 @ 7:00 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 28 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 NO OTHER CHOICE 어쩔수가없다 Director: PARK CHAN-WOOK SOUTH KOREA | KOREAN | 2025 | 139 MIN Cast: Lee Byung Hun, Son Yejin, Park Hee Soon, Lee Sung Min Official Selection, 2025 Venice Film Festival Opening Film, 2025 Busan International Film Festival Poor loyal Man-su. Man-su gave 25 years to Solar Paper, climbing just high enough for a company gift of eel steaks. But after the Americans take over, Man-su is ingloriously fired. His family has to downsize, even give up Netflix! What’s a man(su) to do? When a coveted job finally opens at rival Moon Paper, Man-su hatches a diabolical plan: kill off the competition. Except murdering-novice Man-su becomes as fascinated by his brothers-in-pulp’s lives as he is with ending them. Not to mention, Man-su lives in a Park Chan-wook labyrinth littered with wailing corporate discards, slippery stakeouts, exuberantly pivoting wives (Crash Landing on You’s Son Ye Jin), teenage death-stares, a Viet Cong gun, sabotaging shafts of sunlight, and one of the most unforgettable murder scenes of all time. Giddy, blackly comedic, and visceral, NO OTHER CHOICE follows one man with the single-mindedness of titans to reclaim his life as a middle manager. Add NO OTHER CHOICE’s delirious hilarity to the Park Chan-wook (Old Boy, The Handmaiden) toolbox we’ve come to love—twisty dystopia, dazzling mayhem, fight- or-flight heroes, allegorical violence—all swirling in Park’s drunken genre cocktail of suspenseful thriller, family melodrama, biting satire, and a dash of romantic comedy. Close to 20 years in the making, Park re-teams with Lee Byung-hun (Concrete Utopia, SDAFF '23, Joint Security Area) for an indispensable satire about today's ultimate throwaway commodity. - Christina Ree RESURRECTION 狂野时代 Director: BI GAN CHINA, FRANCE | MANDARIN | 2025 | 156 MIN Cast: Jackson Yee, Shu Qi, Mark Chao WEST COAST PREMIERE Special Prize, 2025 Cannes Film Festival Official Selection, 2025 New York Film Festival A woman with a camera encounters a monster. A secret agent experiments with sound on stage. A young expedition member heals his trauma through a living Buddha. A thief tries to reunite a girl with her father. A mysterious girl enchants a street thug. Each of these threads converges in the dream of the last creature on Earth still capable of dreaming (Jackson Yee), and a woman who dares to enter its dreamscape (Shu Qi). What can save humanity from the loss of imagination? For Bi Gan, the answer is cinema. In his third feature, the visionary filmmaker pays tribute to the history of cinema while engaging with the pulse of a rapidly evolving China. Spanning a century, Bi Gan pushes the philosophical boundaries of film through a mesmerizing orchestration of its core elements: image, sound, narrative, and special effects, all culminating in one of the most impressive long takes the medium has ever seen. The result is a kaleidoscopic experience, one that redefines how we interpret storytelling, where endings loop back to beginnings. This is not a film to be solved but to be felt; not one to invest in, but to surrender to. It invites the audience not to follow, but to float: into sensation, into dream, into possibility. - Wentao Ma SAT, NOV 8 @ 8:00 PM WED, NOV 12 @ 6:50 PM SUN, NOV 9 @ 3:30 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 29 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU 그 자연이 네게 뭐라고 하니 Director: HONG SANG-SOO SOUTH KOREA | KOREAN | 2025 | 108 MIN Cast: Ha Seongguk, Kwon Haehyo, Cho Yunhee Official Selection, 2025 Berlin International Film Festival Official Selection, 2025 New York Film Festival When your girlfriend’s father says to you, “Wow, your mustache is really pretty,” that’s good right? Especially if he goes on about it, explaining how he could never grow one “so pretty?” He’s being vulnerable, in a sense saying you’ve surpassed him. Maybe he’s the father you’ve always wanted. Are you his dream son? Hong Sang-soo’s latest uses a Meet the Parents rom-com setup to reveal the fantasies and projections we put on our lovers and families. When poet Dongwha visits his longtime girlfriend’s home, built on a mountain dedicated to her grandmother, he meets her soulful father, her mother (also a poet), and her wise if unstable sister. In turn, they meet a young man who, they increasingly intuit, might have more sincerity than depth. Continuing a series of films that consider intergenerational encounters, WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU is as generous as it is biting. Rather than careening towards sitcom catharsis, it lets anticlimaxes break like waves against the film’s charming, strange family. Shooting with a skeleton crew in lush green settings, Hong Sang- soo employs a soft focus that comes and goes with the nonchalance of a bar-napkin masterpiece. - Lev Kalman WOMAN AND CHILD هچب و نز Director: SAEED ROUSTAEE IRAN, FRANCE | PERSIAN | 2025 | 131 MIN Cast: Parinaz Izadyar, Payman Maadi, Soha Niasti Official Selection, 2025 Cannes Film Festival Mahnaz is a 40-year-old nurse in love with the charming ambulance driver Hamid. Sure, he runs some side hustles to make ends meet, but Mahnaz has a busy life of her own to juggle. A single mom of two kids, Mahnaz lives with her mother and sister. Her teenager Aliyar is an unruly whirlwind, subcontracting homework to his sister, escaping on rooftops to gamble during class, mocking the principal in Instagram videos. When Hamid insists on an engagement ceremony, a reluctant Mahnaz must figure out how to hide evidence that she has children–except Aliyar is suspended from school, and her kids have no idea she is remarrying. When an unthinkable catastrophe shatters their world, Mahnaz’ hellbent quest for retribution forces a reckoning with the tensions undergirding modern society. Celebrated for social storytelling in populist genres, filmmaker Saeed Roustaee injects WOMAN AND CHILD’s domestic drama with the same pulse-quickening intensity of his drug trafficking thriller Just 6.5 (SDAFF ‘19). A modern Greek tragedy, WOMAN AND CHILD’s cinematic heat comes from the gendered palpitations beneath the surface and women negotiating pockets of freedom within a maze expressly designed to deny equal footing. A third entry in his series about Iranian women, WOMAN AND CHILD is Roustaee's first film since a six month prison sentence and five year filmmaking ban (subsequently commuted) for his film Leila’s Brothers. Parinaz Izadyar delivers a riveting performance of a woman trying all angles, and Roustaee regular Payman Maadi plays the hapless beneficiary of merely being a man. - Christina Ree THU, NOV 13 @ 5:40 PM SUN, NOV 9 @ 7:30 PM SAT, NOV 15 @ 1:30 PM SAT, NOV 8 @ 7:45 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 30 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 Discover Asia’s latest innovative filmmakers, with an alchemy of stories and new ways of telling them. 3670 DIRECTOR: PARK JOONHO SOUTH KOREA | KOREAN | 2025 | 124 MIN Cast: Cho Youhyun, Kim Hyeonmok Distribution Support Prize, CGV Award, Watcha's Award, 2025 Jeonju International Film Festival Official Selection, 2025 Vancouver International Film Festival Years after his three-night voyage fleeing North Korea, Cheol-jun has settled into a new life in Seoul—bonding with fellow defectors, working at a convenience store, preparing for university entrance—except Cheol-jun must also hide his queer sexuality everyday. Increasingly isolated and desperate to explore this part of his identity, Cheol-jun jumps into uncharted waters: Seoul's gay technicolor nightlife. At the deep end of the scene, Cheol-jun befriends Yeong- jun, who introduces him to a lively social circle and the freeness of Jong-no’s gay bars where Cheol-jun quickly becomes a hot commodity as the handsome North Korean top. From shared crushes, studying for exams, smoking cigarettes, to singing karaoke, Cheol-jun has finally found someone he can confide in completely. However, this newfound attention, the stress of keeping his two worlds apart, and the financial burdens of his fellow defectors strain his friendships, leaving Cheol-jun adrift. In his debut feature, Park Joonho creates a narrative about the profound impact of queer community and authentic connection for 3670’s North Korean, baby gay outcast. Juxtaposing the social and emotional struggles of defectors resettling in South Korea with the eccentric yet competitive gay scene, Park finds sweetness in friendship amidst changing scenes and starting anew. - Jeremy Aranda WED, NOV 12 @ 8:15 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 31 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 BRAND NEW LANDSCAPE 見はらし世代 DIRECTOR: YUIGA DANZUKA JAPAN | JAPANESE | 2025 | 115 MIN Cast: Kodai Kurosaki, Kenichi Endo, Haruka Igawa, Mai Kiryu WEST COAST PREMIERE Official Selection, 2025 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Official Selection, 2025 San Sebastian International Film Festival Ten years ago, Ren’s father chose a rising architecture career over his wife and kids. The moment splintered the family, leading each member to different paths. For Ren, that became chugging across Tokyo as a flower delivery man, a witness to the city’s vast physical transformations—the hulking new malls designed by people like his estranged father. These are 21st century fortresses of stacked steel, mini-cities adorned by Gucci and Louis Vuitton signs and connected by escalators and sky bridges. On one delivery in hip Daikanyama, the concrete walkways lead him to the new offices of the father he hasn’t seen in years. The city that tore them apart sees that their eyes lock again. A riveting feature debut by the 26-year-old Yuiga Danzuka, BRAND NEW LANDSCAPE is family drama from the perspective of a generation unmoored, for whom the idea of home and structure is as much an illusion as the shopping malls made to pass as city parks. His younger characters seem unwilling or incapable of reconciling a domestic fantasy, while the father is oblivious to the fact that an architect may fabulate worlds and spaces of communion but is a stranger in the house he created. For this family, it will take uncanny coincidences and even magical intervention to shatter the glass façade. Quiet, unsettling, and deeply felt, BRAND NEW LANDSCAPE marks the arrival of an impressive, confident new voice in Japanese cinema. - Brian Hu AMOEBA DIRECTOR: TAN SIYOU SINGAPORE, NETHERLANDS, FRANCE, SPAIN, SOUTH KOREA | ENGLISH, MANDARIN | 2025 | 99 MIN Cast: Ranice Tay, Nicole Lee, Lim Shi-An, Genevieve Tan, Jack Kao Official Selection, 2025 Toronto International Film Festival Official Selection, 2025 Busan International Film Festival Best Actress, 2025 Pingyao International Film Festival In a word, Choo Xin Yu is “ungovernable.” The newest student at a Singapore prep school for girls, she quickly joins a circle of outsiders. Their ambition: to become a gang. While they begin with trespassing on construction sites and making raunchy school plays, they soon set their sights higher. Just like the opium profiteers who founded Singapore, Choo Xin Yu argues, why not become drug dealers? Rebellious students are among cinema’s most iconic outlaws. Think of Better Luck Tomorrow, Battle Royale, Zéro de Conduite. School is the place where young people are most coercively shaped into subjects, and where the violation of even a small rule, say your hair touching your collar, threatens the whole system. When Choo Xin Yu and her gangster girlfriends buck this system, it puts their friendship and loyalty directly in the path of privilege and power. The short film Strawberry Cheesecake, directed by Siyou Tan, was an electrifying festival favorite at SDAFF 2021. AMOEBA is Tan’s feature debut. With it she raises the stakes, making a film just as incisive about the history of Singapore as it is about its charismatic and vulnerable heroines. - Lev Kalman THU, NOV 13 @ 6:25 PMSAT, NOV 15 @ 4:30 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 32 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 HIJO MAYOR Elder Son DIRECTOR: CECILIA KANG ARGENTINA | KOREAN, SPANISH, GUARANÍ | 2025 | 118 MIN Cast: Kim Chang Sung, Anita B Queen, Suh Sang Bin, Yon Chul Jung NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Best Emerging Director Award, 2025 Locarno Film Festival Official Selection, 2025 San Sebastian Film Festival In Cecilia Kang's debut, a road trip to a lakeside reunion becomes a summoning of memory across two generations of a Korean Argentine family. First, Argentina: teenage Lila (Anita B Queen)—pink pixie cut, Discman in hand—bemusedly watches her father Antonio (Kim Chang Sung) reconnect with old friends. These Korean men scattered by circumstance drink, play cards, sing tearful songs about mothers left behind with spoons as microphones, their melancholy both funny and elegiac. Then, Paraguay, two decades earlier: young Antonio (Suh Sang Bin) swaggers through nightclubs, hair slicked, hustling romance and bad business. Guaraní mixes with Korean, ballads bleed through karaoke bars. He loses everything on horses, walks into piranha waters. Finally, Kang breaks the frame, filming her own parents making gochujang while thumbing through photo albums— revealing how stories get passed down, partial and rearranged like songs half-remembered. HIJO MAYOR reveals how displacement doesn't scramble chronology but creates unexpected intimacies: Korean trot in Paraguay, bulgogi in Buenos Aires, grown men weeping into ramyun at the edge of the world. - Anthony Yooshin Kim LIVING THE LAND 生息之地 DIRECTOR: HUO MENG CHINA | HENAN DIALECT | 2025 | 132 MIN Cast: Wang Shang, Zhang Yanrong, Zhang Chuwen Best Director, 2025 Berlin International Film Festival With his parents working far away, 10-year-old Chuang is taken to a rural Henan village to live with his great-great grandmother, the chatty epicenter of a large extended family that spills into the vast ancestral lands they farm. Because it’s 1991 with Chinese industrialization a whisper away, Chuang’s days swell with each seasons’ demands— baling hay, paying tuition with bags of corn, tending kilns—a collective muscle memory from thousands of years of tradition. But as the family struggles with serious money woes, their dynamics begin to twist with modernization, and Chuang’s closeness with a mentally disabled cousin and an aunt in an arranged marriage reveal faultlines he is powerless to repair. Like epic tableau painting, LIVING THE LAND asks us to dwell in its breathtaking visuals and a panoply of characters poignantly detailed, even at the frame’s edges. Partly based on his own childhood in Henan, filmmaker Huo Meng’s slow tracking shots capture the multivocal touchpoints that comprise collective rural life and the humid biome of interdependence with fields, animals, weather, and the vastness of the horizon. Even the government is more nuisance than menace with oddly asynchronous census polls and fertility checks that periodically intrude on a daily rhythm so ancient as to be irrefutable. Immersive, deeply human, and warmed with humor, LIVING THE LAND is an ode to the many Chinese villages like the one Huo hails from, a remembrance of a China not-yet- gone but receding like photographs in one's memory. - Christina Ree FRI, NOV 7 @ 6:00 PM SAT, NOV 15 @ 1:20 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 33 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 YOUR TOUCH MAKES OTHERS INVISIBLE DIRECTOR: RAJEE SAMARASINGHE SRI LANKA, USA | TAMIL, SINHALA, ENGLISH, RUSSIAN | 2025 | 70 MIN Official Selection, 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam Official Selection, 2025 Vancouver International Film Festival The opening scenes of Rajee Samarasinghe’s enchanting YOUR TOUCH MAKES OTHERS INVISIBLE lay out the stakes. Speaking to a British journalist, then-president of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa denies allegations of the military’s overreach and the white vans that abduct Tamil youth from the streets. Meanwhile, mothers speak of their missing sons and the hope they still feel, over a decade later, that they will be reunited within their lifetimes. With the specter of those atrocities lingering in the air, Samarasinghe unleashes his camera. Gliding drone shots sweep over those streets, where sons remain invisible and a new generation goes about their days. We pass through fields, classrooms, and sites of ritual that bear the weight of violence and memory. We encounter everyday people in Northern Sri Lanka. Theirs are the blank faces of quiet witnesses to history. Around them is the deafening silence of hidden scars. Samarasinghe’s luminescent landscapes mirror the mothers’ unrelenting, if over-confident, hope: in Sri Lanka’s post-Civil War numbness and the continued quieting of its violent past, it takes these rays of visual excess and staunch maternal conviction to burst through the stillness. - Brian Hu Preceded by: YOU'RE A SHADOW RAJEE SAMARASINGHE | SRI LANKA, USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 1 MIN The haunting visage of a mother's exorcist, etched into emulsion and slowed to a crawl as memory itself fades. RENOIR ルノワール DIRECTOR: CHIE HAYAKAWA JAPAN, FRANCE, SINGAPORE, PHILIPPINES, INDONESIA, QATAR | JAPANESE | 2025 | 118 MIN Cast: Yui Suzuki, Lily Frankly, Hikari Ishida Official Selection, 2025 Cannes Film Festival Official Selection, 2025 Toronto International Film Festival Fuki’s terminally ill father has been on the deathbed so long that her mother must return to work, leaving the 11-year- old alone to roam the suburbs of Tokyo with her precocious curiosity feeding a vivid imagination. Fuki (the indelible Yui Suzuki) practices telepathy. Scans gruesome news reports. Interviews disgraced neighbors. Explores a telephone hotline for lonely singles. Meanwhile, her mom (Hikari Ishida) prepares burial outfits and spends time with a handsome behavior coach, while her father (Lily Franky) chases cancer cures and endures his coworkers’ patronizing hospital visits. As each parent seeks relief from their growing solitude, Fuki’s yearning for human experience brings her dangerously close to the worst elements of the adult world while her imagination brings unexplainable companionship. With RENOIR, filmmaker Chie Hayakawa wanted to revisit her own childhood living for 10 years with a dying father and its mix of emotional distance, guilt, youthful exploration, and awe. Fresh-eyed and gentle, RENOIR depicts this peculiarly suspended time as a series of evanescent episodes, easing us toward grief’s held breath, one girl’s awakening amidst life’s darkness, and her inner life as a mysterious new home. - Christina Ree SUN, NOV 9 @ 1:10 PM SAT, NOV 8 @ 3:05 PM THU, NOV 13 @ 8:50 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Dazzling restorations of canonical romances, big screen comedies, and little-known masterworks that rewrite the lineage of Asian and Asian American cinema. ACCIDENTAL TRIO 今天不回家 Director: PAI CHING-JUI TAIWAN | MANDARIN | 1969 | 103 MIN Cast: Chen Chen, Wu Chia-chi, Niu Fang-yu, Lei Ming 2025 4K restoration by the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute As the sun rises over a non-descript Taipei high-rise, three apartment dwellers independently decide to leave their humdrum families and follow their wandering eyes. A high school student is fed up with her buttoned-up father’s conservative rules. A dad sneaks away from his four rowdy kids and their nagging live-in grandparents. An office worker tells his wife he’s off for a work trip when in fact his old flame is visiting from the US. All want desperately to be led astray. And none have any intention of coming home after the sun sets. On the surface, ACCIDENTAL TRIO is a classic morality play of Taiwan’s post-war “Healthy Realism,” a comedy of temptation and the wavering but steadfast power of home. But in director Pai Ching-jui’s hands, temptation is never so easily reined in. Teen star Chen Chen’s giddy defiance, the shimmering splendor and American pop tunes of the nightclub, and the seductions of the outside world represented by westernized would-be lovers are a cinematic come-hither to vice. Meanwhile, the film's legendary theme song preaches “home sweet home” but reserves its most memorable lyrics for the wanderers who want anything but to return. Pai spices things up with Taiwan’s most lascivious zoom-ins and most lustful frames-within-frames. Long underappreciated outside of Taiwan, Pai’s decorative and impassioned aesthetic may lean excessive but it’s never accidental. - Brian Hu SUN, NOV 9 @ 12:30 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC ANDAZ APNA APNA Everyone Has Their Own Style Director: RAJKUMAR SANTOSHI INDIA | HINDI | 1994 | 160 MIN Cast: Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon, Karisma Kapoor 2025 4K restoration by Vinay Pictures and Prasad Film Labs Aamir Khan and Salman Khan are the legendary duo of ANDAZ APNA APNA, a comedy too zany for audiences in 1994 when it was dubbed a flop upon release, but which has since re-emerged as a bona-fide cult classic and is now considered one of the most hilarious Bollywood films of all time. Goofing off at his father’s barber shop, Amar (Aamir Khan) has superstar dreams. So does the equally aimless Prem (Salman Khan). Unbeknownst to each other, they both independently hatch the same harebrained scheme for money, love, and fame: sell their fathers’ businesses and hop aboard a bus to find and woo the illustrious Raveena (Raveena Tandon), a rich heiress who has arrived from London in search of true love. The two men trick, lie, and steal their way into Raveena’s orbit. For them, no scheme is too shameless, and no disguise too ridiculous. But on their heels is Raveena’s father Ram Gopal, a couple backstabbing assistants, and the hilarious Crime Master Gogo. An epic comedy of errors, ANDAZ APNA APNA’s chock-a- block roller coaster of legendary hijinks include mistaken identities, evil twins, false imprisonment, Bollywood parodies, screwball kidnappings, sight gags, slapstick, cameos, wild caricatures, witty wordplay, puns galore, and a few songs thrown in along the way. With some of the biggest Bollywood stars of the 90s, Rajkumar Santoshi’s ANDAZ APNA APNA reminds us that sometimes it’s nice to just sit back in a dark theater and succumb to comedic chaos. - Neha Pearce THE ARCH 董夫人 Director: T'ANG SHUSHUEN HONG KONG | MANDARIN | 1968 | 95 MIN Cast: Lisa Lu, Roy Chiao, Hilda Chou 2025 4K restoration by M+, through the support of CHANEL Ranked #20 in the 100 Greatest Chinese Films of All Time poll, 2005 Hong Kong Film Awards Ranked #47 in the 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films of All Time poll, 2010 Golden Horse Film Festival Official Selection, 2025 Cannes Film Festival Waiting is also a romance, and this lush, black & white, dreamy 4K restoration of the 1968 classic THE ARCH is possibly the most romantic film of the year. Like laughing horseback with your beloved while riding in the stream. Like lounging in the sun (in seventeenth century China), playing chess before the rain. The feature debut of the pioneering T’ang Shushuen, the rare female director working in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 70s, THE ARCH follows three women from three generations—a young widow, her daughter, and mother-in-law—who live in a quiet house when the arrival of a cavalry officer sets off a chain reaction of interlocked impossible attractions. Tang masterfully and experimentally weaves together a film of precise images and storytelling. THE ARCH portrays the passing of time like falling in love—first nothing, then suddenly in too deep. All this accompanied by a zither score that dances with her characters’ repetitions. THE ARCH explores the inner life of its protagonist Madam Tung, brilliantly portrayed by Lisa Lu, with a patience and nuance wholly different from Hong Kong or western films of this era. Lucky us to now be able to fall into the chrysanthemum world of THE ARCH—it’s about time. - Michelle Sui TUE, NOV 11 @ 6:45 PM SAT, NOV 8 @ 4:50 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC TAKE OUT Director: SHIH-CHING TSOU, SEAN BAKER USA | ENGLISH, MANDARIN, SPANISH, CANTONESE | 2004 | 88 MIN Cast: Charles Jang, Jeng-Hua Yu, Wang-Thye Lee Official Selection, 2004 Slamdance Film Festival John Cassavetes Award Nominee, 2009 Independent Spirit Awards Co-directed by scrappy newcomers Shih-Ching Tsou (LEFT- HANDED GIRL) and Sean Baker (Anora, Tangerine), TAKE OUT is the quintessential indie passion project that became a modern classic. Made for $3000 in an actual working Chinese restaurant, with unknown Asian American actors and an ear to the cacophony of the Manhattan streets, Tsou and Baker electrified the screen with the story of the everyday bike-riding young men delivering Chinese food. Jostling through stairwells and streets is Ming Ding, an undocumented immigrant feeding a wife and child in China while fending off merciless loan sharks who prey on newcomers with everything to lose. He has one day to come up with the money, so he needs every tip he can make in an endless string of food deliveries. There’s no room for error. Not the rain, a flat tire, or mixed-up orders will stand in his way, and Tsou and Baker’s MiniDV camera flies forward with him, tracking him through long lenses, zooming in as he whips through city spaces, soaking in the stir-fry grease splatter and the smell of broccoli chicken. With each delivery opens up another corner of Manhattan. Luxury apartments and run-down projects. People with dogs or babies. Hungry New Yorkers in the middle of arguments, bad days, showers, or recording sessions. All connected through the undocumented Chinese worker living in post-9/11 Homeland Security America. TAKE OUT is too spontaneous, too off-the- cuff to realize it was making a definitive portrait of labor and immigration in the US, but looking back in the rearview to 2004 from a collaborative career still racing forward, it marked the riveting opening statement from two key chroniclers of the American underclass. - Brian Hu THE SYSTEM 行規 Director: PETER YUNG HONG KONG | CANTONESE | 1979 | 88 MIN Cast: Pai Ying, Sek Kin, Chiao Chiao 2025 4K restoration by M+, through the support of CHANEL In British-colonized Hong Kong, Inspector Chan enlists the help of his informant Uncle Tam (Sek Kin), the assistant to drug lord Hung, in a risky bid to bring Hung down. Pressured by his British superior, Chan (Pai Ying) puts everything on the line for an all-out operation, only to find himself ensnared in a solitary reckoning with the true nature of his mission. In his feature debut, filmmaker Peter Yung boldly reimagines the police procedural, infusing it with a documentary style rooted in investigative journalism. Drawing on extensive research, Yung sets the tonal blueprint for what would become the Hong Kong New Wave—a movement defined by directors like Tsui Hark, Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, Wong Kar- wai, John Woo, and others. Beyond its gripping portrayal of police work, THE SYSTEM (a title that resonates all too well) confronts the bureaucratic abuse of power imposed on those at the frontline. Yung’s meditation on undercover work and double agency exposes the steep cost of justice, one that seldom seeks to end crime itself. At its core lies a hunger for identity and a quiet, piercing critique of British colonial rule. - Wentao Ma SAT, NOV 15 @ 4:10 PMFRI, NOV 7 @ 8:30 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 37 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 37SHORTS PROGRAMS An uncanny sampler of cinematic surprises—a special Viet program, history-unraveling dips into the archive, body doubles, avenging baddies, and a special program for the kids. Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 38 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 BODIES, BODIES, BODIES 73 MINS From body horror, fleshy fables, and transcendent animated day trips, a selection of films that consider the parts, particulars, and participation of these bodies we call home. ALI ADNAN AL RAJEEV | BANGLADESH, PHILIPPINES | BENGALI | 2025 | 15 MIN In a small town where women are forbidden to sing, one mother goes to desperate lengths to conceal Ali’s true voice for a singing competition. BITTER CHOCOLATE Shokolate Talkh SAHAR SOTOODEH | IRAN, GERMANY | PERSIAN | 2025 | 20 MIN Yasi, a tough-as-nails teenager, travels to Tehran for an underground abortion and immediately afterwards must take an English aptitude test to fulfill her alibi. THE TALE OF TRAN THANH DUONG Sự tích Trần Thanh Dương HACHUL LE DO | VIETNAM | VIETNAMESE | 2025 | 9 MIN Inspired by Vietnamese folklore and traditional musical theater, this origin story tells the tale of Tran Thanh Duong who is neither a fish nor shrimp but a wonder- filled transformation. STOMACH BUG MATTY CRAWFORD | UK | ENGLISH, CANTONESE | 2024 | 15 MIN A father deals with the emotional strain of his daughter being away for college, only for him to endure a physical turmoil developing inside him. ĐẸP NHƯ MA / AS PRETTY AS A GHOST 83 MINS In this collection of Vietnamese short films, plots haunt the ephemeral: old crushes on scooters, reanimated memories, and tenderness found in between the past and present. GRANDMA’S FOUR COLORED CARDS Bài Tứ Sắc Của Ngoại SALLY PHUONG TRAN | VIETNAM | VIETNAMESE | 2025 | 10 MIN From a tiny house in Saigon’s slums, 101-year-old Ngoai lives her everyday life feeding the cat, cleaning the altar, and running an illegal card game. A day through her clouded radiant eyes, overflowing within community care. WE USED TO TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME AN NGUYEN | VIETNAM, USA | VIETNAMESE | 2025 | 13 MIN A teenage girl embarks on a summer road trip with old friends, racing against time through the Vietnam countryside to return to a place that can no longer exist. SUN, NOV 9 @ 2:00 PM WED, NOV 12 @ 5:30 PM SAMMI, WHO CAN DETACH HIS BODY PARTS REIN MAYCHAELSON | INDONESIA | INDONESIAN | 2025 | 19 MIN Sammi had the unusual ability to share his body parts to help people. After his death, a mother struggles to piece together parts so he can be buried whole and embarks on a path to understanding. ORDINARY LIFE 普通の生活 YORIKO MIZUSHIRI | FRANCE, JAPAN | 2025 | 10 MIN In this sensual animation, everyday life may seem repetitive but each moment is uniquely ever-changing. To be present is lovely. Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 39 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 39SHORTS PROGRAMS SEX, BASEBALL, AND ALL PUSSIBILITIES AIMEE PHAM, KAI SAMPADIAN | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 10 MIN A sex-positive friend coaches her bestie for a homerun hit. MAYBE IT’S JUST THE RAIN REINA BONTA | USA, PHILIPPINES | ENGLISH, TAGALOG | 2025 | 15 MIN It’s the first ever appearance for the Philippines women’s soccer team at the FIFA World Cup, and player-filmmaker Reina Bonta realizes that her family history all leads up to this. TARA ASHUTOSH S. SHANKAR | INDIA, USA, UK | HINDI, ENGLISH | 2025 | 23 MIN Tara is a Dalit trans woman who falls in love with an upper caste man, forcing her to confront the dissonance between love and identity. YOU HAVE NO MOTHER! 유 헤브 노 마더! YOONSEO LEE | USA | KOREAN | 2025 | 13 MIN Three girls do cute girl things, be silly, laugh, frolic, play pretend husband, child, and wife. Maybe our friends are the true family we’ve made along the way. NERVOUS ENERGY EVE LIU | USA | ENGLISH, MANDARIN, JAPANESE, FRENCH | 2025 | 15 MIN Fueled by feverish ambition, two best friends conspire to shed their boyfriends and pursue their filmmaking dreams without distraction. THE GIRLS ARE WINNING 88 MINS It’s V-day for the girls in these juicy shorts flirting with cinema lust, raging ambition, BFF coaches, and play-family. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY FOR THE LADY AVENGER 風流少女殺人事件 BIRDY WEITING HUNG | TAIWAN, USA | 2024 | 12 MIN On a hot day in 1980s Taiwan, a teen girl is caught between the dark theater and celluloid dreams, their deadly delights as sweet as watermelon soaked in summer, sliced to a bloody red. SAT, NOV 8 @ 12:40 PM THESE YELLOW STARS OF OURS VINH NGUYEN | USA | ENGLISH, VIETNAMESE | 2025 | 22 MIN Inventive and experimental, a son chronicles his parents’ journey fleeing war-torn Vietnam and their love story in the States to reconcile with the family’s legacy of diaspora. GÀ LAVABO: TẾT 1969 DUY DO | USA | VIETNAMESE, ENGLISH | 2024 | 14 MIN It’s 1968 San Diego, and amid a shifting political climate, a group of South Vietnamese exchange students attempt to celebrate their first Tết away from home. GOODBYE AND HELLO TO MY DAD KATHLEEN HOANG | USA | ENGLISH, VIETNAMESE | 2025 | 6 MIN Between newspaper shapes and heavy brushstrokes, a recently passed Vietnamese father lingers with his daughter, as time, space, and videocam memories overlay a final quiet reckoning. LONG’S LONG LOST & MINI MART JULIAN DOAN | USA | VIETNAMESE, ENGLISH | 2025 | 18 MIN At a conspicuous quick mart, a young man pays for one last conversation with his dead father, an encounter filled with ashes, lotto tickets, grief, and spirals of “what ifs.” Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 40 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 JUST BETWEEN US 93 MINS Sometimes a message requires a different messenger. Whether through musical, iPad, ouija boards, or pastiche, these shorts explore alternate ways to connect across the divide. MASTERPIECE MOMMY DOROTHY SING ZHANG | UK, CHINA | ENGLISH | 2024 | 15 MIN Medicalized anxiety induces musical psychosis as a daughter waits on her mother’s mammogram, distraught over the incident that brought them there. A LETTER TO MOM HTING RA | USA | KACHIN | 2025 | 12 MIN Addressed to his mother in a small Myanmar village, Hting describes life in Philadelphia as a sushi chef by day and documentary film student by night, his love of Ozu, and yearnings for home. SANDS STREET CLARO DE LOS REYES | USA | ENGLISH, TAGALOG | 2025 | 18 MIN Under a moonlit sky in an unwelcoming 1940s Brooklyn, a Filipino steward and Black welder develop an intimate connection filled with hope, solidarity, and tenderness. AGAINST FORGETTING Dijî Jibîrkirinê AZAD AZIZYAN | KURDISTAN, USA | KURDISH | 2024 | 22 MIN Four northern Kurdistan artists etch the past into the present, their bodies as living repositories preserving culture through food, folklore, and song before it all vanishes. AFTER THE STORM SUNGBIN MOON | USA | KOREAN | 2025 | 6 MIN The storm of addiction quiets, inviting space for a mother and daughter’s once-battered relationship to renew, even from a neverending distance. MY DEAREST DARLING VAHN LEINARD PASCUAL | PHILIPPINES | TAGALOG | 2025 | 20 MIN In conservative Philippines, 60-year-old trans woman Darling finds comfort and acceptance by reconnecting with her dead lover. THU, NOV 13 @ 4:00 PM LONELY HEARTS CLUB 99 MINS A shorts playlist for the yearners. Whether hormonal teenager, sad faced ghost, or trans hairdresser, loneliness fuels these six stories of hijinks, insurgencies, long urban strolls, or hands held on a bad day. WE ARE KINGS FRANK SUN | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 13 MIN To impress his peers, a teenager bootlegs films in the back of a Chinese restaurant. But priorities shift when his crush orders a burger from his mom. PUBERTY FOR HUMANS WESTER DEMANDANTE | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 13 MIN Poor Late Bloomer Linus—no marketable robo parts for the workforce. In a world where robo-puberty dictates your cog in the machine of progress, what’s a guy with all flesh and no function to do? FRI, NOV 7 @ 4:00 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 41 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 OUR LAND HAS A THROBBING HEART 92 MINS Inspired by Fadwa Tuqan’s poem Hamza, stories that evoke a land whose heart endures, as secret-keeper, accomplice, healer, receiver of our dead, and midwife of unruly entropies. LǍO LǍO 姥姥 YANG HU | USA | 2025 | 2 MIN Charcoal drawing and erasure on a single sheet of paper capture grandma in a series of family portraits over time. THE FOREST IS A SPIRIT THAT BECKONS ME Inalof Yu’ Nu i Aniten Hålom Tåno’ JACOB CRUZ-RINE | USA | CHAMORU | 2025 | 18 MIN With a curse spreading across her stomach, a young CHamoru woman seeks answers from an enthralling forest and a spirit whose hands guide her own. HOW TO BURY YOUR FATHER AMMAR KESHODIA | CANADA | ENGLISH, URDU | 2025 | 10 MIN A young man returns home to piece together what he can over the course of one night to fulfill his father’s dying wish for a proper burial. YÚ CÌ (FISH BONES) KEVIN XIAN MING YU | USA | ENGLISH, MANDARIN | 2025 | 11 MIN A poisonous fish bite brings together Bowen, a nonbinary Asian American from Queens, with their estranged parents and reveals the unspoken waters between them. DURIAN, DURIAN 榴莲，榴莲 NELSON YEO | SINGAPORE | MANDARIN | 2025 | 7 MIN Two lonely souls. One durian tree. ZARI SHRUTI PAREKH | USA, INDIA | ENGLISH, HINDI | 2024 | 19 MIN On the eve of her sister’s wedding, Neelu struggles to meet her family’s standards of femininity. Until one day in the sari store, she meets Zeyb, a melancholic store clerk with a secret. THE TRUCK ELIZABETH RAO | USA | ENGLISH | 2024 | 13 MIN A post-Roe America leaves a Chinese American girl desperate for the morning after pill, relying on an unsettling trucker as a last resort. A PLACE TO BELONG THEINGI WIN TIN | MYANMAR | BURMESE | 2025 | 16 MIN Ko Nge’s salon is a place where she can freely exist with her trans sex-worker friends. A portrait of Ko Nge’s daily life in Myanmar, her graceful aging as a trans woman, bittersweet memories of a past love, and her tenderness as a pillar in her community. WHY CAN’T WE JUST BE GHOSTS? PATRICK JANG | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 8 MIN A wordless ghost and his best friend explore despair, friendship, and being okay. THE ORANGE ក្រូ�ូច SEAKLENG SONG | CAMBODIA | KHMER | 2024 | 17 MIN After Chay offers childhood sweetheart Lyer a projectionist job, the two wander Phnom Penh, where beginnings and endings are blurred by the changing skyline. FRI, NOV 14 @ 4:00 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 42 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 DELUGE MEEJIN HONG | USA | 2024 | 12 MIN In this infinite animation, curious creatures sprout, burst, and plop in cyclic motion. A universe of chaos blooms and decays. Entropy as the way of life and a collapsing mind. GREEN GREY BLACK BROWN YUYAN WANG | SOUTH KOREA, CHINA, FRANCE | 2025 | 12 MIN With the epic grandeur of science-techno-industry, petroleum culture terraforms in a propulsive montage of home-movie surrealism, planetary views, and the seductive, corrosive ooze of petro-capitalism. WATER SPORTS WHAMMY ALCAZAREN | PHILIPPINES | ENGLISH, TAGALOG, HILIGAYNON | 2024 | 20 MIN A waterless Philippines leaves an all-boys prep school thirsty and in heat, dependent on the joys of water sports to quench the climate emergency. IF I CAN DREAM LUIS CROSS | UK | ENGLISH | 2025 | 12 MIN A Korean-Swedish adoptee and Elvis impersonator enters a tribute competition, uncovering belonging and self in the King’s silhouette. CLEAN SLATE EMILY MAY JAMPEL | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 9 MIN Two best friends vie for the same breakout acting job. One gets the call… but who actually answers? INFLATABLE DOLL JUNYI YANG | USA | MANDARIN | 2025 | 5 MIN A young filmmaker projects her post-breakup confessions, revelations, and lingering feelings onto an inflatable doll. BETTER LIFE JESSICA LIU | USA | ENGLISH, MANDARIN | 2025 | 11 MIN Yearning for his unemployed daughter to be a cookie cutter overachiever, an aging father discovers the Be Successful app which promises to transform her. CHERRY COLORED FUNK CHELSIE PENNELLO | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 17 MIN It's opening day, and a serial grifter’s dubious Italian ice business hard launches with wake-up calls from every one of his failed schemes. THROUGH YOUR EYES NELSON YEO | SINGAPORE | MANDARIN, ENGLISH, SINGLISH | 2025 | 20 MIN The fates of four individuals intertwine in an '80s discotheque, each yearning for connection and escape under the allure of an era that refuses to fade.PARALLEL PLAY 98 MINS A gang of doppels means double the trouble in eight films that consider reenactment, body swaps, stolen identities, and stand-ins. LITTLE REBELS CINEMA CLUB KHOZY RIZAL | INDONESIA | INDONESIAN, MAKASSARESE | 2024 | 17 MIN Blood, machetes, zombies, and an angsty brother's handheld camera are the only ingredients teenage Doddy and his three best friends need to film a movie. GONG GONG'S BUCKET LIST CAITLYN PHU | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 7 MIN A young woman comes up with an ingenious way to help her ailing grandfather complete his bucket list before it's too late. MON, NOV 10 @ 4:00 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 43 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 QUEER SPACE — AND BEYOND 104 MINS Drag story hour, an afterlife detour, an influencer funeral. From first-date surprises to competition on the track, six stories traversing the queer frontier. Guest curated by Michael Chen, ABC 10 News. AFTER WHAT HAPPENED AT THE LIBRARY SYRA MCCARTHY | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 15 MIN In the wake of a terrifying encounter, an overwhelmed drag queen struggles under the weight of public attention. I WANNA BE CHAEWON SUH | USA | ENGLISH, KOREAN | 2025 | 19 MIN Blind runner loses her guide runner at the last minute, forcing her to team up with classmate with a less-than-altruistic motive. AT LEAST WE HAD THIS MOMENT JOSHUA DE VERA | PHILIPPINES | TAGALOG, ENGLISH | 2025 | 20 MIN In his quest to capture the aged architecture of Manila, film photographer Dino seeks the company of a local stranger. I'M THE MOST RACIST PERSON I KNOW LEELA VARGHESE | AUSTRALIA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 13 MIN Longheld prejudices unravel after Lali unexpectedly ends up on a date with another woman of color for the first time. #SLAY RAY DE MESA | USA | ENGLISH | 2024 | 18 MIN Beauty influencer wannabe Tan Deliciosa must battle murder allegations when a social media celebrity dies suddenly. GRANDMA NAI WHO PLAYED FAVORITES Chao Somnop Chet CHHEANGKEA | CAMBODIA, FRANCE, USA | KHMER | 2025 | 19 MIN During her chaotic family’s visit, Grandma Mai sneaks away from her peaceful afterlife after learning her queer grandson is about to get engaged to a woman. SAT, NOV 8 @ 5:10 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 44 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 REEL VOICES 120 MINS The gig's up: make way for the next generation of alt filmmakers. 12 Reel Voices directors challenge the realities handed to them and embrace meditations of introspection. PUNK KIDS JOSSELYN DEGENNARO | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 8 MIN A celebration of various young bands in the San Diego local music scene, detailing the ins and outs of the San Diego community and alternative youth culture. EMOS VS MEXICANS LEEANA RANGEL | USA | ENGLISH, SPANISH | 2025 | 8 MIN An exploratory juxtaposition of the treatment of emos in Mexico and a Mexican emo in America during the 2000s. FOUR DAYS DEAD JONAH RUEHRWEIN | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 6 MIN An experimental introspection, reenacting deeply emotional epiphanies that occurred in a mental hospital and drawing jagged lines between physical self and metaphysical identity. WHO AM I BAYANI DIZON | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 5 MIN Two perspectives of the same mind examine the past and debate their decisions and morality in life. YA NO SE JOSE BAUTISTA SERRANO | USA, MEXICO | SPANISH | 2025 | 6 MIN Uno no aprecia lo que tiene cuando solo ve lo que no puede tener. SAT, NOV 15 @ 1:00 PM FRI, NOV 14 @ 6:30 PM PACK IT UP ALEX ZHANG | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 7 MIN An exploration of teen immigrant mental health, breaking the stigma of silent suffering through community encouragement. EXOTIC MIA GAZZIO | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 7 MIN A dive into the relationship between early Hollywood, its unsung actresses of color, and a girl grappling with her identity today. EVEN THOUGH ISABEL LAI | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 6 MIN In breaking past the stereotypes, this film reframes disability to show the power of seeing the person beyond the label. I AM ZEMIRAH-AZALEAH FESILI | USA | ENGLISH, SAMOAN | 2025 | 5 MIN A declaration of Polynesian pride, breaking free of stereotypical boxes, building up self-confidence, and uplifting the vast, beautiful diversity within community. TO KNOW SOMEONE TO KNOW THEIR STORY LEVI ALAM | USA | ENGLISH, ARABIC | 2025 | 8 MIN Realizing they never knew their loved ones, a filmmaker re-meets their family of Syrian immigrants. HOUR GLASS SUMMER TALAN ALZONA-PAULUS | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 7 MIN A time capsule of the last summer before senior year, capturing a snapshot of that bittersweet feeling of leaving childhood and all those cherished memories behind. THE THINGS WE LOSE ON OUR WAY TO THE SKY YAEJI KIM | USA, KOREA | ENGLISH, KOREAN | 2025 | 4 MIN A reinterpretation of memory through the main motif of the color blue, grappling with both cultural and personal dissonance. Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 45 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 SHADOW BOX 97 MINS Sly background audio, synopses of impossible films, refugees-turned-Coppola movie extras. Five shorts that wrestle with shadows in the archive and unfinish history. EAVESDROPPING ON JASON SATO'S BROTHERS (1973) NGUYEN TAN HOANG | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 6 MIN Video essay that revisits the first hardcore feature-length gay porn film, to find in its soundtrack the shadow presence of its maker, the beguiling Japanese American video artist and activist Norman Yonemoto. LLOYD WONG, UNFINISHED 王洛埃，未竟之作 LESLEY LOKSI CHAN | CANADA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 29 MIN The unfinished work of a Chinese Canadian artist living with AIDS resurfaces three decades later, inspiring a portrait through incomplete fragments. RAZEH-DEL لد زار MARYAM TAFAKORY | IRAN, UK, ITALY | FARSI, ENGLISH | 2024 | 28 MIN Two schoolgirls' letters to Iran's first-ever women’s newspaper become artifacts with the paper's closure in 1999, uncovering a technicolor history left censored. SUN, NOV 9 @ 3:50 PM HIBAKUSHA - WANDERING SOUL Hibakusha - Alma Errante JOEL YAMAJI | BRAZIL | JAPANESE, PORTUGUESE, ENGLISH | 2025 | 19 MIN A compelling call for humanity’s future, this dreamlike documentary reconstructs archival fragments and the imaginary of Brazilian resident and Hiroshima survivor- turned-peace activist, Takashi Morita. Today, Brazil is home to the largest population of Japanese people living outside Japan, including Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors). WE WERE THE SCENERY CHRISTOPHER RADCLIFF | USA | VIETNAMESE | 2025 | 15 MIN A charming Vietnamese couple reflect on their journey fleeing the Vietnam War to a refugee camp in the Philippines, only to become background extras reenacting the Viet Cong for Apocalypse Now. 45SHORTS PROGRAMS Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 46 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 SHORTS FOR SHORTIES! 44 MINS A family-friendly collection of films to animate and empower the next generation of bright-eyed achievers to dream big and bold, featuring epic adventures and friendships full of heart! Guest curated by Zaza Nguyen. DANCING IN THE RAIN CHAO-CHUN YEH | TAIWAN, JAPAN | 2025 | 6 MIN As the rain begins to fall, a young girl daydreams about a journey through town, accompanied by dancing mice and a calming musical number. SHORELINE PAUL OVERSTROM | USA | ENGLISH, TAGALOG | 2025 | 11 MIN A first-generation Filipina surfer juggles family and her future—all while finding confidence in the unpredictable tide. I DREAM ABOUT COLORFUL EARTH WILL KIM | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 2 MIN Vivid watercolor dances across paper, a poignant reminder of humanity's resilient connection to the Earth and one another. A SMALL GARDEN BY THE WINDOW LEE JONGHOON | SOUTH KOREA | 2025 | 4 MIN In a bouncy, blob-filled world, everyday eco-friendliness leads to epic earth healing missions—teaching us the true power of home grown tomatoes and turning the dang sink off. MA MAO THANH NGO | CANADA | ENGLISH | 2024 | 2 MIN A little cat named Mao sneakily follows her owner around town, helping her escape claw-ful cat-astrophes. SAT, NOV 8 @ 11:00 AM TO A TIME WITHOUT A PLACE 107 MINS An unyielding neck, impossible house hunts, surveillance center workers, a hallucinatory eye exam. In these shorts, a latent, peculiar state of siege leaks into the everyday, and time and location become each other, without past or future. Title from Mahmoud Darwish’s A State of Siege. A SOUTH FACING WINDOW Урагшаа харсан цонх LKHAGVADULAM PUREV-OCHIR | FRANCE | MONGOLIAN | 2025 | 19 MIN On the verge of divorce, apartment hunting becomes its own fragile escape for a volatile young couple caught in the congestion of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. TUE, NOV 11 @ 5:35 PM HOW TO MAKE A FRIEND JINFEI GE, BIN HE, MYRTILLE HUET, JULIE JARRIER-STETTIN, YUQIANG ZHANG | FRANCE | ENGLISH | 2024 | 7 MIN Two mates go on an adventure collecting parts to bring an old companion back to life, finding comfort and friendship in each other along the way. KOMANEKO – A NEW JOURNEY こまねこのかいがいりょこう TSUNEO GODA | JAPAN | JAPANESE | 2024 | 8 MIN Komaneko prepares to go on a trip with her grandpa, but hesitates leaving her stuffed friends behind. A heartFELT stop-motion animation about friendship and growing up. LITTLE BODY BIG HEART TEO NALANI, ELI HUANG | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 4 MIN A young fish is driven out of his comfort zone when his heart leaps away in search of adventure. Quirky and vibrant, featuring bubbly music and self-evolution. Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 47 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 A VERY STRAIGHT NECK NEO SORA | JAPAN, CHINA | JAPANESE | 2025 | 11 MIN A woman suffers from neck pain, haunted by stiffly bowing figures and a deceased friend. As ordinary movements become unbearable, she moves through the quiet violence of a crumbling world. THE LAST THING I THINK I SAW JUSTIN KAMINUMA | USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 15 MIN An optometrist appointment induces a paranoid psychosis where liminal spaces question the medicalized condition of humanity through the looking glass. ANATOMY OF A CALL 通訊默示錄 ARNOLD TAM | HONG KONG | CANTONESE, MANDARIN | 2024 | 17 MIN Three phone calls, three loosely intertwined characters treading water in Hong Kong, from a burnt-out film producer, a guru-like telemarketer, and a forgetful mother. CITIZEN-INMATE Dar band HESAM ESLAMI | IRAN | PERSIAN | 2025 | 15 MIN Stories of surveillance and resistance, and the everyday life of exhausted workers who install and monitor ankle trackers for Tehran citizens under house arrest. MIRAGE: EIGENSTATE RIAR RIZALDI | INDONESIA, UK, PORTUGAL | INDONESIAN | 2025 | 30 MIN Edited in the style of American astronomer and planetary scientist Carl Sagan’s 1980s television series Cosmos, a fantastical synth'y exploration of diverse interpretations of reality— from tropical Sufi mysticism and monorealism to theories of quantum mechanics. WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH THIS 85 MINS Whether familial, romantic, or mythic, lurk in the murky surfaces and troubling edges of love. ONE DAY THIS KID ALEXANDER FARAH | CANADA | FARSI, ENGLISH | 2024 | 18 MIN Spanning three life stages and inspired by David Wojnarowicz's, "One Day This Kid," young Afghan-Iranian Hamed struggles with queer awakenings and the silent heartbreak of his father. THE RED BANCA NENA JANE | PHILIPPINES | BISAYA | 2025 | 10 MIN In a small island town, young Maria must weigh sacrament over sacrilege as she prepares to marry a foreigner amidst the prying eyes of her town and the haunting song of the ocean. CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG 如你所愿 HAO ZHOU | GERMANY, USA | SICHUAN MANDARIN | 2025 | 23 MIN At times comedic, poignant and extremely personal, a queer filmmaker and his Southwest Chinese grandmother embark on conversion therapy filled with rituals, home remedies, and ghosts. HONEY, MY LOVE, SO SWEET JT TRINIDAD | PHILIPPINES | TAGALOG | 2025 | 20 MIN Under hazy theatre lights and the warm summer heat, two boys navigate a love mirrored by film but fragmented by reality. SAINT ANDREWS ERIN RAMIREZ | JAMAICA, USA | ENGLISH | 2025 | 14 MIN Chinese Jamaican Dee is in love but after hearing her father's racist remarks, she must choose between two worlds: leave or stay. WED, NOV 12 @ 4:00 PM Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 48 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 Del Holton Del Holton is a writer and programmer based in New York, with roots in the US South. They are currently a pre-doctoral fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and are pursuing a PhD in Art History at Stanford University. Most recently, they programmed CAAMFest 2025 with the Center for Asian American Media in San Francisco. Their writing appears in Film Quarterly, Screen Slate, Flash Art, Elephant Magazine, XTRA, Frontiers, and the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. Chris Jeju Lee Chris Jesu Lee is a writer (and lawyer) in New York City. He has been published in Current Affairs, The Cleveland Review of Books, The Believer, and The Metropolitan Review. His other literary and cultural essays can be found on his Substack entitled Salieri Redemption. Celeste Wong Celeste Wong is a lifelong film and performing arts enthusiast based in Oakland. She has worked in programming for various film festivals nationwide, including Tribeca, Palm Springs ShortFest, Atlanta Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, and San Francisco DocFest. FESTIVAL JURORS T HE 2025 SDAFF ASIAN AMERICAN COMPETITION JURY Oggs Cruz A corporate lawyer by profession, Oggs Cruz has contributed articles and reviews to print publications such as Businessworld, The Philippine Star, Rogue Magazine, Nang Magazine, and the Philippine Free Press. He formerly reviewed films for Rappler. He has also written articles for various film books, including The Philippine New Wave. He was selected to take part in the Berlinale Talent Press and was part of several selection committees of various film festivals, including Cinemalaya, Cinema One, and Quezon City Film Festival. He has also served as part of the jury for the Jogjakarta International Film Festival, QCinema International Film Festival, and Bangkok Short and Video Festival. Sean Gilman Sean Gilman is a film critic based in Tacoma, Washington. A reformed podcaster and founder and editor of Seattle Screen Scene, for the past decade he has written extensively about East Asian film for the MUBI Notebook, InReview Online, the Criterion Current, and various other sites, including his own, The Chinese Cinema. Additionally, he has produced supplements for physical media releases from the Criterion Collection, Radiance Films, Kino Lorber, Vinegar Syndrome, and Chameleon Films. Chanel Kong Chanel Kong is Curator of Moving Image at Hong Kong’s M+ Museum. Previous exhibitions include Hong Kong Here and Beyond, Shanshui: Echoes and Signals, and Apichatpong Weereasethakul: Primitive. Chanel organizes the year-round screening programmes at the M+ Cinema and the Grand Stair, and annual events such as the ASEAN Film Festival and the Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival. As part of the collections development, she is helping to build the Asian Avant-Garde Film Collection and oversees the M+ Restored project. Prior to M+, Chanel worked in Asia, Europe, and the US at various film festivals, media archives, and cultural organizations. T HE 2025 SDAFF INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM JURY Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 49 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 GEORGE C. LIN EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD George Lin was a fierce advocate for indie film, indie music, and the right way to eat greasy food and ice-cold boba. Slightly awkward and downright fearless, George never turned down a conversation or a chance to meet a new friend. He founded the DC APA Film Festival in 2000, and later joined the San Diego Asian Film Foundation (now Pacific Arts Movement) as its Programming Director. At SDAFF, he helped launch a number of initiatives such as Blowfish (a live music showcase), Reel in the Vote (voter awareness campaign through media arts), and even the ridiculous idea of purchasing used bread trucks to drive around town and project films (which SDAFF eventually realized as Drive-By Cinema). After a long fight with cancer, George passed away on October 14, 2008. Each year since his passing, Pacific Arts Movement has proudly presented an Emerging Filmmaker Award in honor of George Lin. Selected by the SDAFF programming team, winners are presented to first-time feature filmmakers and other promising new voices. PREVIOUS AWARD WINNERS Alison Nguyen director of HISTORY AS HYPNOSIS Joseph Mangat director of DIVINE FACTORY So Yun Um director of LIQUOR STORE DREAMS Tiffany Sia director of NEVER REST/UNREST Elizabeth Lo director of STRAY Miko Revereza director of NO DATA PLAN Christopher Makoto Yogi director of AUGUST AT AKIKO’S Anahita Ghazvinizadeh director of THEY Andrew Ahn director of SPA NIGHT Vera Brunner-Sung director of OUT OF MY MIND Leslie Tai director of GRAVE GOODS and SUPERIOR LIFE CLASSROOM Ernie Park director of LATE SUMMER Patrick Wang director of IN THE FAMILY Nadine Truong director of SHADOW MAN and EGGBABY Mark Tran director of ALL ABOUT DAD 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC LIFETIME / LEGACY Lee Ann Kim & Louis Song Paul & Sandra Bergman Allan Camaisa Michael & Erika Cheswick Johnny Chou Lois Fong-Sakai & Willie Sakai Fritz Friedman & Jeffrey Krebs Randy Gage & Liese Harter Marshall Gamboa Wendy Gillespie Michael Hom Robert & Edna Ito Matthew Jumper Ken Kalb & Jin Ginns Ed & Shirley Lee Huy Ly Virginia Mar Jip & Diana MarJip- Chuh Connie Nguyen Steve & Cheryl Peace Patricia Pepper Mitchell & Miyo Reff Natasha Wong Alex Yamashiro PRODUCER Kent and Phuong Lee Marichu Magana Efren Magana Robert Park SueAnn Park Shirley Sanz Alicia DeLeon Torres Ariana Torres PATRON Jeremy Chavez Crystal Chavez Stephen Chin Jeffrey Filice Jessica Hsieh Sherry Hsieh Kathleen Ilacqua Michael Ilacqua Charlene Kawabata Kenneth Kawabata Kevin Lee Quan Le Bridget McDonald Kevin Monsalud Ed Nomura Keumhee Nomura Shirley Omori Kim Phan Russell Schnapp Brigid Hom-Schnapp Linda Tu Jeni Tu Tamami Yoshida MyMy Lu SUPPORTER Elias Almazan Alan An Arthur Carbonell Jeff Chin Danny Djeljosevic Gloria E John Gastaldo Roxanne Girard Peggy Goldsmith Sylvia Hom Deborah Hall Mariette Pascasio John Pascasio William Reeve Allan Regala David Shina Willis Sparks Brian Thai Haeyoung Tang Angie Vorhies Brian Yamamoto Heidi Yuen Tina Liebig Lawrence Ladao Chris Larson Kevin Crilly Roger Perez Haeyoung Tang DONOR Matthew Alejo Marla Alvarado John Andreasen Arounny Chann Albert Chao Lily Chen Amelia Chu Edward Pruitt Timothy Bennett Duane Bondad Sharyll Brown Brenda Castruita Kathleen Dang Alicia DeLeon Torres Kaori Fukuyama Amy Fan A-Bel Gong Nathan Ginoza Lourdes Guardiano Durkin Carol Hastanan Ady Hom Karen Hsia Karen Lim Kelly Lim Lindsey Lue Lynne Matthews Allie Moreno Annamarie Montecina Till Isabel Nguyen Nhung Nguyen May McLean Wesley Quach Paul C Marra Jodie Olson Kendell Padrick Ty Phimmasone Glendon Romett Richard Rachel John Pascasio Mariette Pascasio Bill Teague Joyce Teague Kristy Totten Ariana Torres SueAnne Yee Mija Valdez Joselito (Joel) Valenzuela Andy Wang Peter Wong-Gillman Kurt Wong-Gillman Thomas Wroblewski Leah Tsao Annie So Marion So Smith Sirisakorn Ty Phimmasone Joyce Teague Natalie Zhang FRIEND Maria Reinalda Adams Madhu Alagiri Jennifer Babauta Melina Babauta Jane Bausa Sanjay Bhandari Jon Blaj James Buczkowski Mark Carroll Cristina Carroll Justin Chow Erin Chew Heather Carmody Luke Calzada Rowshan Dowlatabadi Tamia Dowlatabadi Toni Duran Oscar Eusebio Riza Eusebio AprilJoy Galka Michelle Gonzaba Jimmy Gottlieb Jacqueline Guan Zenab Haq Courtney Hartmann Tisa Cindy Hoang Wendy Hsu Joe Ignacio Emi Kaneshiro Jon Kaneshiro Paula Kim Jen LaBarbera Nicholas Lam Eric Lallana Ruth Marie L San Filippo Isabella San Filippo Jane Lee MEMBERSHIP ROSTER Adam Lee Ajumma EXP Alice Wu Allen Young Amenah Gulamhusein Aram Siu Wai Collier, Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival Ashley Dequilla Asian Business Association San Diego Christian Quiambao Cynthia Kashiwagi (In Memoriam) Creative Mornings San Diego Dustin Nguyen Elvin and Nan Lai Elyse Burden Ethan Yang, Glassbox Fritz Friedman George C. 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Use promo code: SDAFF2025 Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 59 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 INDEX / PRINT SOURCE Feature Films 25 CATS FROM QATAR (PAGE 9) mye@grayhatfilms.com 3670 (PAGE 30) tommaso@luminaliafilm.com ACCIDENTAL TRIO ((PAGE 34) waynehong@tfai.org.tw AMOEBA (PAGE 31) festivals@diversion-th.com ANDAZ APNA APNA (PAGE 35) pritisinha@vinaypictures.com THE ARCH (PAGE 35) chanel.kong@mplus.org.hk BACK HOME (PAGE 26) kumo924097@gmail.com BECAUSE OF YOU: A HISTORY OF KILAWIN KOLEKTIBO (PAGE 10) des@almoradiemedia.com BEFORE THE MOON FALLS (PAGE 10) makingwavesfilms@yahoo.com BLIND LOVE (PAGE 19) sara@ffe.com.tw BRAND NEW LANDSCAPE (PAGE 31) theophane@luxboxfilms.com BUNNYLOVR (PAGE 11) Stephen@utopiadistribution.com CHARACTERS DISAPPEARING (PAGE 11) connor.s.warnick@gmail.com CLASH (PAGE 19) zhangziwei01@qiyi.com DEBUT, OR, OBJECTS OF THE FIELD OF DEBRIS AS CURRENTLY CATALOGUED (PAGE 12) jtcastronovo@gmail.com DECATHLON: THE CK YANG & RAFER JOHNSON STORY (PAGE 12) brian@408films.com FAMILY MATTERS (PAGE 20) desmond@mandarinvision.com FORGE (PAGE 5) jng2503@gmail.com FUCKTOYS (PAGE 13) tim@trashtown.pictures THE GAS STATION ATTENDANT (PAGE 13) samuel@bradfordoperations.com HAUNTED MOUNTAINS: THE YELLOW TABOO (PAGE 20) cs98h040@gmail.com HIJO MAYOR (PAGE 32) festival@meikincine.com HONEYJOON (PAGE 14) Lmehrel@gmail.com HOW DARE YOU? (PAGE 21) aito@nbn.co.jp HUMAN RESOURCE (PAGE 27) kt@gdh559.co.th KY NAM INN (PAGE 21) Leonqle@gmail.com LEFT-HANDED GIRL (PAGE 8) vsheng@netflix.com LIVING THE LAND (PAGE 32) erin@filmmovement.com LUCKY LU (PAGE 14) ma@thefestivalagency.com MAGELLAN (PAGE 27) caroline@janusfilms.com MAG MAG (PAGE 22) adam@thirdwindowfilms.com MANOK (PAGE 22) ucp.uncommonpictures@gmail.com MOUSE (PAGE 15) kenny@dualist.com MY UNCLE JENS (PAGE 23) giuditta@intramovies.com NO OTHER CHOICE (PAGE 28) lucie.boulet@neonrated.com OPM + HOME MOVIES: THE LEGACY OF UNCLE NICK (PAGE 7) am.dequi@gmail.com PROJECT Y (PAGE 23) youn.sumin@megabox.co.kr REMOVAL OF THE EYE (PAGE 15) prashanthkamalakanthan@gmail. com RENOIR (PAGE 33) erin@filmmovement.com RESURRECTION (PAGE 28) caroline@janusfilms.com THE ROSE: COME BACK TO ME (PAGE 16) anita@yuedits.com ROSEMEAD (PAGE 6) rosemead.film@gmail.com SOUTHEAST ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNEYS (PAGE 16) film@quyennl.com SUMMER'S CAMERA (PAGE 24) urdivinefactory@gmail.com THE SYSTEM (PAGE 36) chanel.kong@mplus.org.hk TAKE OUT (PAGE 36) booking@janusfilms.com THIRD ACT (PAGE 17) kathy@thefilmcollaborative.org A USEFUL GHOST (PAGE 24) bfletcher@cineverse.com THE WAVES WILL CARRY US (PAGE 25) mmfilm001@gmail.com WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU (PAGE 29) edward@cinemaguild.com WOMAN AND CHILD (PAGE 29) festival@goodfellas.film YEAR OF THE CAT (PAGE 17) tvnguyen510@gmail.com YOUR TOUCH MAKES OTHERS INVISIBLE (PAGE 33) info@envythemonster.com Short Films #SLAY (PAGE 43) ray@raydemesa.com AFTER THE STORM (PAGE 40) sungbinmoonfilm@gmail.com AFTER WHAT HAPPENED AT THE LIBRARY (PAGE 43) kylecaseychu@gmail.com AGAINST FORGETTING (PAGE 40) Azizyan.azad@gmail.com ALI (PAGE 38) lightson@lightsonfilm.org ANATOMY OF A CALL (PAGE 47) arnold@arnoldtw.com AND HERE WE ARE (PAGE 11) christianyamanefilms@gmail.com AT LEAST WE HAD THIS MOMENT (PAGE 43) jsdvera@gmail.com BETTER LIFE (PAGE 42) jejliu@gmail.com BITTER CHOCOLATE (PAGE 38) lightson@lightsonfilm.org A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY FOR THE LADY AVENGER (PAGE 39) birdyweitinghung@gmail.com CHERRY COLORED FUNK (PAGE 42) chelsie@yumejihouse.com CITIZEN-INMATE (PAGE 47) eslami.hesam@gmail.com CLEAN SLATE (PAGE 42) kohmotofilm@gmail.com CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG (PAGE 47) haozhoustudio@gmail.com DANCING IN THE RAIN (PAGE 46) t.uchiyama2170@gmail.com DELUGE (PAGE 42) meejinahong@gmail.com DURIAN, DURIAN (PAGE 41) kraziuzi@gmail.com EAVESDROPPING ON JASON SATO'S BROTHERS (1973) (PAGE 45) nguyentanhoang@gmail.com EMOS VS MEXICANS (PAGE 44) info@pacarts.org EVEN THOUGH (PAGE 44) info@pacarts.org EXOTIC (PAGE 44) info@pacarts.org THE FOREST IS A SPIRIT THAT BECKONS ME (PAGE 41) jacobcruzrine@gmail.com FOUR DAYS DEAD (PAGE 44) info@pacarts.org GÀ LAVABO: TẾT 1969 (PAGE 39) doduy6151@gmail.com GONG GONG'S BUCKET LIST (PAGE 42) caitlynphu@gmail.com GOODBYE AND HELLO TO MY DAD (PAGE 39) hnkathleen61@gmail.com GRANDMA NAI WHO PLAYED FAVORITES (PAGE 43) lightson@lightsonfilm.org GRANDMA'S FOUR COLORED CARDS (PAGE 38) tran@sallytran.com GREEN GREY BLACK BROWN (PAGE 42) info@squareeyesfilm.com HIBAKUSHA - WANDERING SOUL (PAGE 45) graofilme@gmail.com HONEY, MY LOVE, SO SWEET (PAGE 47) hello.burningsisiw@gmail.com HOUR GLASS SUMMER (PAGE 44) info@pacarts.org HOW TO BURY YOUR FATHER (PAGE 41) ammar.keshodia@gmail.com Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC 60 @PACARTSMOVEMENT | #SDAFF2025 HOW TO MAKE A FRIEND (PAGE 46) festival@miyu.fr I AM (PAGE 44) info@pacarts.org I DREAM ABOUT COLORFUL EARTH (PAGE 46) will1005@hotmail.com IF I CAN DREAM (PAGE 42) contact@luiscross.com I'M THE MOST RACIST PERSON I KNOW (PAGE 43) leela.varghese2@gmail.com INFLATABLE DOLL (PAGE 42) junyiyang@students.calarts.edu I WANNA BE (PAGE 43) wonfilms120@gmail.com KOMANEKO - A NEW JOURNEY (PAGE 46) animation@dw-f.jp LǍO LǍO (PAGE 41) lynn.yang.hu@gmail.com LAST CALL (PAGE 13) winnith@gmail.com THE LAST THING I THINK I SAW (PAGE 47) jkaminuma@gmail.com A LETTER TO MOM (PAGE 40) htingra83@gmail.com LITTLE BODY BIG HEART (PAGE 46) teo.nalani@gmail.com LITTLE REBELS CINEMA CLUB (PAGE 42) lightson@lightsonfilm.org LLOYD WONG, UNFINISHED (PAGE 45) info@squareeyesfilm.com LONG'S LONG LOST & MINI MART (PAGE 39) heyitsjulian@gmail.com MA MAO (PAGE 46) ngominhthanh2401@gmail.com MASTERPIECE MOMMY (PAGE 40) festival@travellingdistribution.com MAYBE IT'S JUST THE RAIN (PAGE 39) reina.bonta@gmail.com MIRAGE: EIGENSTATE (PAGE 47) rizaldiriar@gmail.com MY DEAREST DARLING (PAGE 40) vahnleinardpascual@gmail.com NERVOUS ENERGY (PAGE 39) eyl278@nyu.edu ONE DAY THIS KID (PAGE 47) alexfarah15@gmail.com THE ORANGE (PAGE 41) songseakleng@gmail.com ORDINARY LIFE (PAGE 38) festival@miyu.fr PACK IT UP (PAGE 44) info@pacarts.org A PLACE TO BELONG (PAGE 41) festivals@scotdoc.com PUBERTY FOR HUMANS (PAGE 40) zahorikzs@gmail.com PUNK KIDS (PAGE 44) info@pacarts.org RAZEH-DEL (PAGE 45) maryam@tafakory.com THE RED BANCA (PAGE 47) moradosjaime@gmail.com SAINT ANDREWS (PAGE 47) ramirezerin05@gmail.com SAMMI, WHO CAN DETACH HIS BODY PARTS (PAGE 38) lightson@lightsonfilm.org SANDS STREET (PAGE 40) film.claro@gmail.com SEX, BASEBALL, AND ALL PUSSIBILITIES (PAGE 39) sampadiankai@gmail.com SHORELINE (PAGE 46) paul.overstrom@gmail.com SKIPPING STONES (PAGE 24) aleqnguyen@gmail.com A SMALL GARDEN BY THE WINDOW (PAGE 46) kaniseed@kiafa.org SO TO SPEAK (PAGE 10) jtchen6@gmail.com A SOUTH FACING WINDOW (PAGE 46) festival@shortcuts.pro SPECTERS AND BONES (PAGE 10) am.dequi@gmail.com STOMACH BUG (PAGE 38) info@mattycrawford.com SURFING TAIWAN: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE (PAGE 12) jawicks75@gmail.com THE THINGS WE LOSE ON OUR WAY TO THE SKY (PAGE 44) info@pacarts.org THROUGH YOUR EYES (PAGE 42) lightson@lightsonfilm.org TO KNOW SOMEONE TO KNOW THEIR STORY (PAGE 44) info@pacarts.org THE TRUCK (PAGE 41) ejr461@nyu.edu A VERY STRAIGHT NECK (PAGE 47) shortfilms@parallaxchina.com A WALK INTO THE AFTERLIFE (PAGE 9) emmanuelle.vincent@doghousefilms.eu WATER SPORTS (PAGE 42) info@squareeyesfilm.com WE ARE KINGS (PAGE 40) frank@franksunfilms.com WE USED TO TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME (PAGE 38) maxretik@gmail.com WE WERE THE SCENERY (PAGE 45) festival@travellingdistribution.com WHO AM I (PAGE 44) info@pacarts.org WHY CAN'T WE JUST BE GHOSTS? (PAGE 41) patrickjang1101@gmail.com YA NO SE (PAGE 44) info@pacarts.org YOU HAVE NO MOTHER! (PAGE 39) yoonseolee@alum.calarts.edu YOU'RE A SHADOW (PAGE 33) info@envythemonster.com YÚ CÌ (FISH BONES) (PAGE 41) kevin@kevinxianmingyu.com ZARI (PAGE 41) shrutiparekh77@gmail.com Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Director of Development Zia Sinclair Memberships Corporate Sponsorships & Partnerships Individual Giving Grants and Foundations Board of Directors Organization Chart 2026 Executive Director Alex C. Villafuerte Carmela Prudencio Marketing Director Video Production Coordinator: Jamuelle Zumel Graphic Design Team Digital Media Team Video Production Team Managing Director Glenn Heath Jr. Volunteers Reel Voices Assistant: Patrick Jang Volunteer Coordinator(s) Reel Voices Instructor: Moriah Hayes Artistic Deputy Director: Christina Ree Lead Curatorial Brian Hu Artistic Director Programmers (Volunteers) Presenters of the San Diego Asian Film Festival Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Presenters of the San Diego Asian Film Festival 2026 CORE TEAM BIOS Alex Villafuerte, Pacific Arts Movement's Executive Director Alex Villafuerte is a Filipino-American community organizer and advocate who has led Pacific Arts Movement since 2023. As Executive Director, he oversees a team of staff and volunteers producing one of the country's largest showcases of Asian, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander media arts. He also serves as co-chair of the San Diego API Coalition, organizing over 50 AANHPI-serving organizations across the region to foster collaboration and capacity building. His advocacy work has supported organizations including the Asian Business Association San Diego, San Diego Pride, and NQAPIA, championing marginalized and intersectional communities throughout Southern California. He is a proud alumnus of Morse High School in Southeast San Diego and San Diego State University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Brian Hu, Artistic Director Brian Hu is a film curator and Associate Professor of Television, Film, and New Media at San Diego State University. As Artistic Director of Pacific Arts Movement, he oversees all film programming for SDAFF and the Spring Showcase. He has curated film series for the Criterion Channel and the UCLA Film and Television Archive and is the Asian film programmer for the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Brian holds a PhD in Cinema and Media Studies from UCLA, completed with a Fulbright fellowship, and is the author of Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He has co-edited special sections on Asian American cinema for Screen and Film Quarterly and is contracted to co-edit the Oxford Handbook of Chinese American Cinema. He has served on international film festival juries and film-granting committees at local and national levels. Glenn Heath, Managing Director Glenn Heath brings over a decade of nonprofit management experience to Pacific Arts Movement, where he oversees festival operations, education programs, volunteer recruitment, and internships. He also serves as Artistic Director of Digital Gym Cinema, an independent arthouse theater in downtown San Diego, where he curates first-run and repertory films for San Diego audiences, and as an adjunct lecturer in the Television, Film, and New Media department at San Diego State University. A seasoned film critic, Glenn served as lead film critic for the San Diego CityBeat, reviewing hundreds of films and conducting career-spanning interviews with filmmakers, including Richard Linklater and John Sayles. His criticism has appeared in Slant Magazine, Cineaste, MUBI's The Notebook, Little White Lies, RogerEbert.com, Senses of Cinema, and The Film Stage. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from UC Santa Barbara and a Master of Arts from San Diego State University. Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Presenters of the San Diego Asian Film Festival Carmela Prudencio, Marketing and Communications Director Carmela Prudencio is a nonprofit communications professional, curator, visual artist, and community organizer based in San Diego. As Marketing and Communications Director at Pacific Arts Movement, she leads storytelling and community amplification across film, visual arts, and youth mentorship. Her organizing work spans city and county levels, with a focus on racial equity, intersectionality, and community care. She has collaborated with arts institutions and grassroots organizations throughout the San Diego/Tijuana region, and her work has been exhibited in Tijuana, Mexico, and Quezon City, Philippines. Her partnerships include the Museum of Photographic Arts, the San Diego Underground Film Festival, the San Diego Latino Film Festival, and the Convoy Cultural District. She is currently a co-conspirator and curator at Teros Gallery and a member of the Asian Solidarity Collective. Zia Sinclair, Director of Development Zia Sinclair is an arts and culture professional, advocate, and visual artist with an academic background in Digital Journalism Studies. As Director of Development at Pacific Arts Movement, she oversees philanthropy, donor relations, community outreach, and special events. She brings extensive professional experience from the nonprofit sector, including prior work as Content Coordinator for the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership. Zia has strengthened her professional practice through the University of San Diego's Nonprofit Institute, completing both the San Diego Nonprofit Academy and the Fortify Your Fundraising Lab. In 2025, she served as a Grant Review Panelist for the California Arts Council and completed the San Diego Emerging Leaders Arts Advocacy Program, a collaboration between San Diego Art Matters and California for the Arts, in which she actively championed arts funding and policy at the legislative level. As a practicing visual artist, her work has been exhibited at the San Diego Art Institute, the Oceanside Museum of Art, La Bodega Gallery, and various local art spaces. Jamuelle B. Zumel, Video Production Coordinator Jamuelle B. Zumel is an AAPI director, producer, and actor originally from San Jose, California, now based in San Diego. As Video Production Coordinator at Pacific Arts Movement, he supports the creation, production, and management of multimedia content, leading the video production team, engaging with storytellers, documenting events, and managing equipment, digital assets, and project logistics to promote culturally relevant narratives. As a filmmaker and performer, he most recently appeared on screen as "CS Romi" in Master Chief: Part One, which is available on Apple TV and other streaming platforms. He has worked behind the camera as a 1st AD, director, and producer on numerous productions, including union and non-union feature films and commercials. Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Presenters of the San Diego Asian Film Festival June 2, 2025 To whom it may concern, As a former student of Reel Voices’ class of 2023 and a Classroom Assistant for the class of 2025, I speak with utmost confidence that the cultural and artistic space fostered in the classroom has impacted my voice as a growing artist. The mental health documentary that I created as a student in Reel Voices—which would not have been made possible without the help of instructors and inspiration from peers & the program’s impressive array of visiting guests artists—has screened at 17 film festivals worldwide and won some of the biggest youth film awards (2025 YoungArts Film Gold Medalist - $10,000) in the nation. This, however, is only secondary to a superior achievement that Reel Voices helped me to uncover — the realization that my voice as a human not only matters, but deserves to be heard. Reel Voices students are encouraged to defy filmmaking expectations and break documentary traditions, telling necessary stories from unique point of views, often which is the student themselves. The most unique thing that I’ve come to realize about Reel Voices—through both the student and teacher’s perspective— is that the safe space that is garnered in the classroom allows the students to be comfortably vulnerable. Vulnerability about our struggles, culture, race, religion, sex, and family are highlighted in the dozen films that screen every year, pushing the next generation of storytellers to be truthful, powerful, and honest. I’m a firm believer that storytelling is how humanity can connect in the present while advancing towards the future, and this principle is demonstrated actively and restlessly by Pacific Arts Movement’s beating heart of Reel Voices—a space where our future storytellers connect, share, and thrive. Sincerely, Patrick Jang patrick@pacarts.org 2025 Reel Voices Classroom Assistant 7675 Dagget Street, Suite 360, San Diego, CA 92111 • 619-400-5911 • info@pacarts.org Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC SAN DIEGO MIRAMAR COLLEGE 10440 Black Mountain Road San Diego, CA 92126-2999 619-388-7800 September 19, 2025 I am writing to express our strong support for Pacific Arts Movement (Pac Arts) and its invaluable contributions to our college community, most notably through the San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF) and its role in bringing films and filmmakers to audiences throughout the County of San Diego. Miramar College has benefited and I have been involved with Pac Arts for over 2 decades since it was established by former Channel 10 Anchor, Lee Ann Kim. In addition to the festival, Pac Arts engages in year-round education through programs such as their youth documentary workshops, classroom visits with filmmakers, and the use of SDAFF as a free field trip opportunity for schools across the county. These programs not only entertain but also inspire and help motivate students to explore careers in the media arts. For the past two years, Pac Arts’ Executive Director, Alex Villafuerte, has visited my classes at Miramar College to discuss filmmaking and the festival. We have also brought Miramar College students to SDAFF so they can experience films from around the world. These opportunities have had a profound impact on students, who often share how meaningful and inspiring the experience has been. I have witnessed firsthand the positive influence Pac Arts has on our students and our faculty and staff who have also attended the SDAFF. The work of Pac Arts fosters creativity, representation, and opportunity. We remain steadfast in our support for their initiatives. Please do not hesitate to contact me at jpatacsi@sdccd.edu if I can answer any questions or provide any additional information. Sincerely, Dr. Judy Patacsil Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC San Diego Asian Film Festival, 2025 — Press Mentions Outlet Date Link Media Type Asian Movie Pulse 9/30/25 https://asianmoviepulse.com/2025/09/first-look-26th-san-diego/Blog/Website San Diego Union Tribune 10/27/25 https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/27/cca-cinema-students-shine-in-all-american-high-school-film-festival/News/Website SanDiego.com 10/27/25 https://www.sandiego.com/blog/post/best-things-to-do-in-november-2025-in-san-diego/News/Website San Diego Union Tribune 10/30/25 https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/30/san-diego-arts-roundup-san-diego-asian-film-festival-returns-next-week/News/Website San Diego Union Tribune 11/3/25 https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/01/a-simple-story-with-a-retro-visual-style/News/Website KPBS 11/6/25 https://www.kpbs.org/news/arts-culture/2025/11/06/san-diego-asian-film-fest-takes-audiences-around-the-globe-and-across-every-genrePodcast San Diego Union Tribune 11/6/25 https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/05/the-best-things-to-do-this-weekend-in-san-diego-nov-7-9/Event Listing Global Outreach 11/8/25 https://www.moc.gov.tw/global_outreach/News_Content2.aspx?n=532&sms=10752&s=245913News/Website Times of San Diego 11/7/25 https://timesofsandiego.com/arts/2025/11/07/san-diego-asian-film-festival-150-films/News/Website Axios 11/7/25 https://www.axios.com/local/san-diego/2025/11/07/san-diego-weekend-events-november-2025-diplo-film-festivalsEvent Listing Taiwan Today 11/7/25 https://www.taiwantoday.tw/Culture/Top-News/277378/Taiwanese-movies-feature-at-Southern-California-film-festivalPrint/Online Asian Movie Pulse 11/8/25 https://asianmoviepulse.com/2025/11/the-system-1979-by-peter-yung-film-review/Film Review Asian Movie Pulse 11/8/25 https://asianmoviepulse.com/2025/11/the-arch-1968-by-tang-shu-shuen-film-review/Film Review San Diego Red 11/8/25 https://www.sandiegored.com/en/news/7-events-to-enjoy-on-both-sides-of-the-border-this-weekend/Event Listing Asian Movie Pulse 11/10/25 https://asianmoviepulse.com/2025/11/the-rose-come-back-to-me/Film Review Asian Movie Pulse 11/9/25 https://asianmoviepulse.com/2025/11/fucktoys-2025-by-annapurna-sriram-film-review/Film Review Asian Movie Pulse 11/10/25 https://asianmoviepulse.com/2025/11/rosemead-2025-by-eric-lin-film-review/Film Review Asian Movie Pulse 11/11/25 https://asianmoviepulse.com/2025/11/2025-san-diego-asian-film-festival-filmmaker-awards-winners/Blog/Website Asian Movie Pulse 11/11/25 https://asianmoviepulse.com/2025/11/what-does-that-nature-say-to-you/Film Review Asian Movie Pulse 11/9/25 https://asianmoviepulse.com/2025/11/summers-camera-2025-by-sung-divine-film-review/Film Review Asian Movie Pulse 11/9/25 https://asianmoviepulse.com/2025/11/renoir-2025-by-chie-hayakawa-film-review/Film Review San Diego Union Tribune 11/13/25 https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/12/the-best-things-to-do-this-weekend-in-san-diego-nov-14-16/Event Listing Asian Movie Pulse 11/13/25 https://asianmoviepulse.com/2025/11/3670-2025-by-park-joon-ho-film-review/Film Review Loma Beat 11/12/25 https://lomabeat.com/san-diego-asian-film-festival-screens-james-wicks-surfing-documentary/News/Website Daily Aztec 11/17/25 https://thedailyaztec.com/125056/opinion/cinema-is-in-a-period-of-reinvention-and-san-diego-must-continue-to-advance-its-culture/News/Website The Guardian 11/17/25 https://ucsdguardian.org/2025/11/17/inside-the-2025-san-diego-asian-film-festival/News/Website Asian Movie Pulse 11/15/25 https://asianmoviepulse.com/2025/11/living-the-land-2025-by-huo-meng-film-review/Film Review KPBS 11/14/25 https://www.kpbs.org/news/arts-culture/2025/11/14/the-running-man-remake-and-eclectic-art-house-films-for-your-weekend-viewingNews/Website Asian Movie Pulse 11/14/25 https://asianmoviepulse.com/2025/11/your-touch-makes-others-invisible/Film Review KPBS 11/13/25 https://www.kpbs.org/news/arts-culture/2025/11/13/san-diego-weekend-arts-events-spock-noodles-clowns-and-doom-metalPodcast Asian Movie Pulse 11/14/25 https://asianmoviepulse.com/2025/11/brand-new-landscape/Film Review Taiwan Embassy 11/17/25 https://www.taiwanembassy.org/uslax_en/post/15044.html News/Website Cinema Express 11/26/25 https://www.cinemaexpress.com/international/interviews/2025/Nov/26/karla-murthy-my-film-is-about-reimagining-the-american-dreamNews/Website Loma Beat 11/19/25 https://lomabeat.com/professors-picks-diving-into-taiwans-soundscape-with-james-wicks/News/Website Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC Applicant: Pacific Arts Movement FY 2026-27 Community Arts Grants Budget Form CAG FY 2026-27 BUDGET FORM PROJECTED - APPLICATION ACTUALS - FINAL REPORT PROJECT INCOME $ Notes $ Pacific Arts Movement Ea r n e d I n c o m e Admissions ($-) Gifts/Merchandise/ Concessions ($-) Advertising ($-) Other ($-) Subtotal Earned Income ($-) Subtotal Earned Income ($-) CONTRIBUTED INCOME $ Notes $ Notes Un e a r n e d I n c o m e Private ($-) Individual ($-) Public Support ($-) Applicant Cash ($-) CAG Request Amount ($ 7,500.00) Amount requested through City of Carlsbad Community Arts Grants FY 2026- 27 Amount received through Community Arts Grants 2026-2027 Other ($-) Other ($-) Subtotal Unearned Income ($ 7,500.00) Subtotal Unearned Income ($-) ($7,500.00)($-) INCOME TOTALS PROJECT EXPENSES Cash Notes Cash Notes Project Staff (non-artist)($ 1,500.00) Program staff / event coordination: 1 staff member coordinating venue, logistics, filmmaker travel, and day-of production Project Artist(s) or Arts Instructor(s)($ 1,500.00) Filmmaker or AANHPI cinema subject matter expert honorarium: professional fee for live introduction and program curation Educational Materials/Printing ($-) Costumes/Props ($-) Sets ($-) Supplies ($-) Licensing/Royalties ($ 1,500.00) Film screening rights / licensing fees for AANHPI short and/or feature film(s) Rentals (space and/or other)($ 1,500.00) Venue rental: Schulman Auditorium, Carlsbad City Library ($500); A/V equipment rental for professional film presentation ($1,000) Transportation ($-) Food & Beverage ($-) Marketing/Promotion/ Publicity ($ 1,500.00) Carlsbad-targeted marketing and outreach: print materials, digital promotion, and local media distribution Fiscal Agency Fee ($-) Other Other ($-) Other ($-) EXPENSES TOTALS ($7,500.00)($-) IN-KIND SUPPORT Value Notes Value Notes ($-) ($-) ($-) ($-) ($-) ($-) ($-) ($-) IN-KIND TOTALS ($-) ($-) Budget Instructions: For application, fill out only green. For final report, fill in blue. You will only be able to fill out the cells highlighted in green or blue. The application project budget must balance. Total income must equal total expenses. Final Report may Round all budget figures to the nearest whole dollar. Enter a '0' in any cells that you don't have an amount to add. Please give detailed descriptions for each line item in the notes column. For example, if your total admissions is $1,000, enter "4 shows, 50 attendees, $5 each." Please insert your organization name in the top right header. Docusign Envelope ID: 4BE8E999-DDA9-81CD-8045-E66C4C5BD7EC